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They surrender to martial law but attack parliament - CJP Qazi Faez Isa

In any other respectable country you would expect president to resign today. This is a big blow for PTI and president started this reference.
 
MRSN said:
In any other respectable country you would expect president to resign today. This is a big blow for PTI and president started this reference.
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The judges yesterday were given a verbal money trail by the wife of Isa, in which most of the time, she was crying. Today he gave the paper work, the judges didn't look at it, and gave a verdict. Why would you not verify the documents? To put it mildly, something smells fishy.
 
Excellent decision. Justice Isa is a man of dignity. SC is finally showing some guts.

Another day, another humiliation for PTI.
 
To be fair, the courts had soft corner for PTI as we have seen their decisions on IK sister and IK's own offshore company which had similarities to NS offshore companies. Also they got away with the Islamabad dharna case where a strong case was filed by one of police officer against Imran khan that could have turned very badly had courts any other ideas.

But after this failed case I doubt courts will treat them same.
 
Supreme Court quashes reference against Justice Faez Isa

The Supreme Court declared on Friday the reference against Justice Qazi Faez Isa as null and void.

Today, Justice Umar Ata Bandial who headed the ten-member full bench announced the reserved verdict. The court has held 41 hearings so far.

Last year, a presidential reference was filed in the Supreme Judicial Council against the judge for owning foreign assets. Justice Isa was accused of misconduct over failure to declare his wife and children’s UK properties.

Justice Isa rejected the allegation, saying he is not a beneficial owner of the flats. In his petition, the judge pleaded the SC to declare that the Asset Recovery Unit (ARU) constituted by the government to investigate his family's properties.

He said it was illegal and asked for action to be taken against Special Assistant on Accountability Shahzad Akbar.

On Thursday, Mrs Justice Qazi Faez Isa recorded her statement via video link and presented the evidence of funds used to purchase the three offshore properties.

In the previous hearings, Federal Law Minister Farogh Naseem who resigned from his post to represent the government, told the court that Prime Minister Imran Khan is ready to face the consequences if the presidential reference is quashed.

https://www.brecorder.com/news/1005642/supreme-court-quashes-reference-against-justice-faez-isa
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Supreme Court unanimously quashed presidential reference against Justice Isa. 7 judges referred matter to FBR for tax proceedings against his wife & children. However. 3 judges Justice Baqar, Justice Mansoor & Justice Yahya did not endorse majority view to refer matter to FBR.</p>— Hasnaat Malik (@HasnaatMalik) <a href="https://twitter.com/HasnaatMalik/status/1273943593749708800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
The judges unanimously declared the proceedings of the Supreme Judicial Council and its show-cause notice as abate. Seven judges on the bench have, however, referred the matter to the Federal Board of Revenue asking it to initiate tax proceedings against Justice Isa’s wife and two children.

The FBR has been given two months to finalise a report on the matter that is to be submitted before the SJC – if deemed appropriate, the SJC will be empowered to initiate proceedings against Justice Isa.

The reasons of the order are to be issued later.

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2245892/1-sc-reserves-judgment-justice-isas-case/
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Short order: <br><br>1. Reference quashed<br>2. Commissioner of inland revenue to send notices to spouse/children of J. Isa regarding the properties in question<br>3. Report to be submitted to SJC, which may initiate suo motu proceedings against J. Isa if appropriate <a href="https://t.co/jtHE6OEaRW">https://t.co/jtHE6OEaRW</a> <a href="https://t.co/AMZGeqOqBV">pic.twitter.com/AMZGeqOqBV</a></p>— Reema Omer (@reema_omer) <a href="https://twitter.com/reema_omer/status/1273949649406177280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
Abdullah719 said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Short order: <br><br>1. Reference quashed<br>2. Commissioner of inland revenue to send notices to spouse/children of J. Isa regarding the properties in question<br>3. Report to be submitted to SJC, which may initiate suo motu proceedings against J. Isa if appropriate <a href="https://t.co/jtHE6OEaRW">https://t.co/jtHE6OEaRW</a> <a href="https://t.co/AMZGeqOqBV">pic.twitter.com/AMZGeqOqBV</a></p>— Reema Omer (@reema_omer) <a href="https://twitter.com/reema_omer/status/1273949649406177280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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That is fair enough. Let's see the money trail. Nooras start to celebrate prematurely again.
 
I am amazed at the 3 judges that didn't want the verification of the documents, why? Why would you not to verify the documents that he gave?
 
Those eating rasgullay should know that FBR is under the government and PM has control over it. I hope to God FBR goes through her finances with a fine comb and trump up any small thing found. Mafia ke sath mafia bun kar hi lara ja sakta hai. If nothing is found I hope fake charges are made against the judge. Gloves should come off now buhat hogaya paak saaf naik niyatti

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Order in Simplest words:<br><br>RESTART of the process.<br><br>Closed all active windows.<br><br>FBR investigate as per income Tax Ordinance.<br>SJC go against judge if the FBR report uneartg something worthy</p>— Yasir Cheema (@Yasirmcheema) <a href="https://twitter.com/Yasirmcheema/status/1273960168804532224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
Syed1 said:
Those eating rasgullay should know that FBR is under the government and PM has control over it. I hope to God FBR goes through her finances with a fine comb and trump up any small thing found. Mafia ke sath mafia bun kar hi lara ja sakta hai. If nothing is found I hope fake charges are made against the judge. Gloves should come off now buhat hogaya paak saaf naik niyatti

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Order in Simplest words:<br><br>RESTART of the process.<br><br>Closed all active windows.<br><br>FBR investigate as per income Tax Ordinance.<br>SJC go against judge if the FBR report uneartg something worthy</p>— Yasir Cheema (@Yasirmcheema) <a href="https://twitter.com/Yasirmcheema/status/1273960168804532224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Keep dreaming. This government cannot do jack.

Your leader couldn’t even keep Nawaz behind the bars.
 
Criminals and Suspects have it really easy in Pakistan's judicial system. This is the same judicial system which let Ayyan Ali go Scott Free. Nauman Dar, Shakeel Sheikh the moment they were let go by the PCB have immediately gone to the courts. It is no wonder why people are tempted to take the law into their own hands.
 
Mamoon said:
Keep dreaming. This government cannot do jack.

Your leader couldn’t even keep Nawaz behind the bars.
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Its a pity that you use your leaders so called health issues as a tool to make fun of the govt. Absolutely zero insaniyat
 
Mamoon said:
Keep dreaming. This government cannot do jack.

Your leader couldn’t even keep Nawaz behind the bars.
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Also my leader is PM of Pakistan, a seat that Nawaz Sharif can NEVER have again. PM will be re-elected in 2023 and 2028 karlo jo karna hai.
 
Govt accepts SC's ruling in Justice Faez Isa case, says Akbar

(Karachi) Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Accountability Shahzad Akbar has said that the government accepts the Supreme Court's judgment in Justice Faez Isa reference case.

Addressing a media briefing in Islamabad on Friday, he said, "We respect the judiciary."

He highlighted that under Article 209, there are three ways a reference could be filed against a judge.The first is the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) takes notice by itself against a judge. Secondly, the government files a reference to the SJC and thirdly any person approaches the council for action.

He added the role of executive is to send the reference. Akbar maintained the government believes that the SJC is the only body that could deal with matters related to judges. "The government is satisfied with top court's ruling in the case," he mentioned.

The SAPM said, "After the verdict was announced by SC, an environment was created to make it look like either it is someone's win or defeat."

"The judgment is not anyone's win or defeat. It is a sensitive issue," he remarked.

Earlier, the Supreme Court quashed the presidential reference filed against Justice Qazi Faez Isa’s for non-disclosure of family members’ properties in his wealth statement.

The short verdict was announced by Justice Umar Ata Bandial, leading the 10-judge full court bench hearing the case.

The judges unanimously declared the proceedings of the Supreme Judicial Council and its show-cause notice as abate. Seven judges on the bench have, however, referred the matter to the Federal Board of Revenue asking it to initiate tax proceedings against Justice Isa’s wife and two children.

https://www.brecorder.com/news/1005694/govt-accepts-scs-ruling-in-justice-faez-isa-case-says-akbar
 
ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Accountability Shahzad Akbar has said the government is satisfied and has accepted the decision given by the Supreme Court in response to several petitions dealing with the presidential reference against Justice Qazi Faez Isa.

Addressing a news conference after a full-court bench quashed the presidential reference, Shahzad called the decision "a good decision" and described it as "neither anyone's victory nor defeat".

He said that, as of now, there is no plan to file a petition against the verdict.

Akbar said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), its chairman and he himself, as an advocate, had great respect for the superior judiciary and respected its independence.

He said the PTI believed in the separation of the judiciary, the executive and Parliament, as was envisaged in the Constitution of Pakistan. He highlighted that under Article 209, there were three ways a reference can be filed against a judge.

The first is that the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) takes notice by itself against a judge. Secondly, if the government files a reference with the SJC, and thirdly, if any person approaches the council for action.

Akbar noted that the proceedings on the petitions against the presidential reference filed under Article 209 of the Constitution continued for 13 months.

“There is a mechanism for the accountability of every institution and the superior judiciary is only answerable to the Supreme Judicial Council, comprising five senior-most judges of the superior judiciary,” he said.

Akbar further said that the reference was about three flats owned by the wife and children of the honourable judge, which had been challenged by the petitioner. He noted that as per the short order, the judges of the bench declared the proceedings of the Supreme Judicial Council and its show-cause notice as abated.

As per the SC verdict, within seven days, the inland revenue commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Revenue (FBR) will issue notices to the spouse and children of the honourable SC judge who are owners of flats.

Within 75 days, the commissioner will furnish a report in the light of documents, money trail and other material and, if there are further questions and answers, more documents can be sought.

The commissioner will then send, within seven days, the report to the FBR chairman, who will be bound to send it to the SJC chairman with his signatures.

The chairman will then place the report before the Supreme Judicial Council under the rules defined as per Article 209 of the Constitution and it will hold deliberations for perusal, consideration, action or order or proceedings if any, he noted.

Akbar said it was written also that the FBR proceedings will have nothing do with the council's proceedings based on the report and the council will decide on whether or not to take further action in this scheme of things.

Akbar said the government was satisfied with the judgment and it was a good judgment.

He said the dispatch of the government's reference to the Supreme Judicial Council had not at all meant that the government was looking for a particular decision, as its duty as per the Constitution was to refer information and the honourable judges had to then see it and attend to the matter, which has nothing to do with the government.

He said the scheme of things set as per the order was quite proper and whatever would be the next decision, the government's duty was over already, as now the matter was between the SJC and the judge concerned.

Akbar added that the government lawyers were quite mindful of not saying anything which might lead to creating any controversy.

“We did what was our constitutional right and then the honourable judges had to hold proceedings and they are extremely respectable to us. However, as soon as the short order came, an environment was created, as if it was someone’s victory and someone’s defeat. In democratic societies and constitutional schemes, giving such colour to a judgment is not proper,” he maintained.

The SAPM said he had gone through the order repeatedly but he could not find the name of Asset Recovery Unit or its abbreviation in it or that it had been declared illegal. He said the detailed judgment would also be a guide to the government and serve as a beacon light in the future.

He added the prime minister had no problem with the matter being referred to the FBR when a timeline had also been given on this count.

https://www.geo.tv/latest/294031-ju...t-says-satisfied-with-supreme-courts-decision
 
ISLAMABAD: The joint opposition on Friday, while welcoming the Supreme Court’s verdict on several petitions pertaining to the Justice Qazi Faez Isa case, demanded that President Arif Alvi and Prime Minister Imran Khan should step down for filing an "unlawful, unconstitutional, and false reference based on pure mala fide intentions."

In a joint statement, PML-N, PPP, Awami National Party, JUI-F, JI, Qaumi Watan Party, National Party (Hasil Khan Bazinjo) said the "truth" about the Asset Recovery Unit (ARU) had been exposed and such instruments of political victimisation and vengeance-driven agenda must be shut down at once.

They alleged that the government tried to twist the arm of the superior judiciary by knowingly filing a false, misleading, and defamatory reference based on mala fide intentions.

The combined opposition congratulated the judiciary over "this great victory" by upholding the law, the Constitution, and its supremacy along with the lawyers and bar councils all across the country and paid them rich tribute for "rejecting and defeating such a fascist mindset". They said lawyers had once again played an exemplary role at a crucial moment in the history of the country, adding that this episode had "exposed" Imran Khan's mindset.

The PPP termed the reference against Justice Isa a conspiracy against the freedom of the judiciary and asked if there would be the accountability of president, prime minister, and law minister following the landmark verdict.

In a statement, PPP leader Dr Nafisa Shah recalled that eight years earlier, on June 18, 2012, the then prime minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani was disqualified "as he refused to deviate from the Constitution".

PPP social media and research coordination cell Sehar Kamran also demanded the resignation of President Alvi after the dismissal of the presidential reference against Justice Isa.

“President Dr Arif Alvi has lost the moral obligation to remain in the post and I demand his resignation,” she said.

She said the verdict of the Supreme Court had exposed the ill intentions of the government and exposed the mindset of PM Imran.

The Supreme Court had on Friday dismissed the presidential reference against Justice Isa in the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) while accepting his petition seeking the reference's dismissal.

The SJC had initiated the proceedings over Justice Isa's alleged non-disclosure in wealth returns of three London properties acquired on lease in the name of his wife and children between 2011 and 2015.

The case was wrapped up after Justice Isa's spouse provided a money trail pertaining to her foreign properties and the Federal Board of Revenue provided its input on the matter.

Justice Isa, in his petition challenging the reference, had requested that the apex court declare that the Asset Recovery Unit formed by the government to look into the properties had no legal standing and therefore the actions taken by the unit with regard to the reference against him and his family are illegal.

The petition had contended that no proper research was ever conducted and the property details gathered were simply the product of online surveillance.

https://www.geo.tv/latest/294041-sc...pposition-calls-for-president-pms-resignation
 
MenInG said:
ISLAMABAD: The joint opposition on Friday, while welcoming the Supreme Court’s verdict on several petitions pertaining to the Justice Qazi Faez Isa case, demanded that President Arif Alvi and Prime Minister Imran Khan should step down for filing an "unlawful, unconstitutional, and false reference based on pure mala fide intentions."

In a joint statement, PML-N, PPP, Awami National Party, JUI-F, JI, Qaumi Watan Party, National Party (Hasil Khan Bazinjo) said the "truth" about the Asset Recovery Unit (ARU) had been exposed and such instruments of political victimisation and vengeance-driven agenda must be shut down at once.

They alleged that the government tried to twist the arm of the superior judiciary by knowingly filing a false, misleading, and defamatory reference based on mala fide intentions.

The combined opposition congratulated the judiciary over "this great victory" by upholding the law, the Constitution, and its supremacy along with the lawyers and bar councils all across the country and paid them rich tribute for "rejecting and defeating such a fascist mindset". They said lawyers had once again played an exemplary role at a crucial moment in the history of the country, adding that this episode had "exposed" Imran Khan's mindset.

The PPP termed the reference against Justice Isa a conspiracy against the freedom of the judiciary and asked if there would be the accountability of president, prime minister, and law minister following the landmark verdict.

In a statement, PPP leader Dr Nafisa Shah recalled that eight years earlier, on June 18, 2012, the then prime minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani was disqualified "as he refused to deviate from the Constitution".

PPP social media and research coordination cell Sehar Kamran also demanded the resignation of President Alvi after the dismissal of the presidential reference against Justice Isa.

“President Dr Arif Alvi has lost the moral obligation to remain in the post and I demand his resignation,” she said.

She said the verdict of the Supreme Court had exposed the ill intentions of the government and exposed the mindset of PM Imran.

The Supreme Court had on Friday dismissed the presidential reference against Justice Isa in the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) while accepting his petition seeking the reference's dismissal.

The SJC had initiated the proceedings over Justice Isa's alleged non-disclosure in wealth returns of three London properties acquired on lease in the name of his wife and children between 2011 and 2015.

The case was wrapped up after Justice Isa's spouse provided a money trail pertaining to her foreign properties and the Federal Board of Revenue provided its input on the matter.

Justice Isa, in his petition challenging the reference, had requested that the apex court declare that the Asset Recovery Unit formed by the government to look into the properties had no legal standing and therefore the actions taken by the unit with regard to the reference against him and his family are illegal.

The petition had contended that no proper research was ever conducted and the property details gathered were simply the product of online surveillance.

https://www.geo.tv/latest/294041-sc...pposition-calls-for-president-pms-resignation
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We just need the money trail that Isa and wife promised they had and put into the envelope. I am not sure why these crooks seem worried if they have the trail. Its game, set and match, isn't it?
 
Faiz Isa lawyer saying all of government's demands met and they are thinking about filing a review petition :)))



A moment of silence for patwaris who ate ras ghullay too early just like Panama case. May Allah give them sabar o tahammul to bear this loss :sarf2
 
MRSN said:
In any other respectable country you would expect president to resign today. This is a big blow for PTI and president started this reference.
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I think you didn't read the verdict. The govt asked the crook to provide a money trail, and the court agreed. So why should the President or anyone else resign.
 
Syed1 said:
Faiz Isa lawyer saying all of government's demands met and they are thinking about filing a review petition :)))



A moment of silence for patwaris who ate ras ghullay too early just like Panama case. May Allah give them sabar o tahammul to bear this loss :sarf2
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I am confused, the Nooras were going ape with excitement yesterday. What happened?
 
Bewal Express said:
I am confused, the Nooras were going ape with excitement yesterday. What happened?
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As per Pakistani court proceedings order is released in English and then someone translates it to Urdu (or maybe court releases Urdu order later).... So original order was in English and patwaris started celebrating since they couldn't understand it, but when the Urdu order was released the reality began to dawn on them.


I recommend that in future SC should release the Urdu version alongside the English version to prevent premature ras ghullay :)))
 
Syed1 said:
As per Pakistani court proceedings order is released in English and then someone translates it to Urdu (or maybe court releases Urdu order later).... So original order was in English and patwaris started celebrating since they couldn't understand it, but when the Urdu order was released the reality began to dawn on them.


I recommend that in future SC should release the Urdu version alongside the English version to prevent premature ras ghullay :)))
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If the Nooras spent as much time in school as eating buying and eating Ras ghullay, we may not have these misunderstandings.
 
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Salute you both for the effort and time you put in exposing these nooras/patwaris. You guys have extreme patience with these guys. Reading some of these guys posts makes my blood boil. Pareh likhey jaahils.

Keep it up Shero!
 
Kashmirilion said:
[MENTION=1269]Bewal Express[/MENTION] [MENTION=138254]Syed1[/MENTION]

Salute you both for the effort and time you put in exposing these nooras/patwaris. You guys have extreme patience with these guys. Reading some of these guys posts makes my blood boil. Pareh likhey jaahils.

Keep it up Shero!
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It's not difficult exposing badniyaati people that worship mafia families.
 
Everyone hailing Qazi Faez Isa as an honest and upright judge seems to be from the pseudo-liberal strata of society. People to whom being anti-establishment is the only thing that matters. It was the same with the propping up of Nawaz Sharif in his last term by Dawn and other self-proclaimed liberals. It's as if everything these individuals do ceases to matter as long as they 'stand up' to the establishment.

And Qazi Faez Isa's behavior through out this whole process has been highly unbecoming of a SC judge. Cant believe this guy accused Imran Khan of having properties in UK based on a search engine but didn't bother to check that the Imran Khan he was looking at was 39 years old and a resident of the UK. What's even troubling is that he is in-line to become CJ in 2021.
 
ISLAMABAD: A day after the Supreme Court announced its verdict in the presidential reference against Justice Qazi Faez Isa, the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) — one of the petitioners — was on Saturday having second thoughts and may file a review petition against a part of the judgement.

Soon after the announcement of the judgement by a ten-judge full court, the PBC had issued a call to observe “Yaum-e-Tashak*kur” on Mon*day (June 22) to celebrate the victory of the cause of the rule of law, the constitutionalism and the independence of the judiciary.

But PBC vice chairman Abid Saqi on Saturday told Dawn that after a threadbare discussion among the members of the council, the PBC had decided to challenge paragraph 9 of the short order which the full court had announced.

“We have strong reservations against that part of the order since we believe it is illogical,” he explained.

Through paragraph 9, the majority judgement consisting of seven judges had ordered the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) chairman to furnish a report to the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) secretary, who happens to be the registrar of the Supreme Court.

The report so furnished will consist of details of the proceedings conducted by the commissioner inland revenue after seeking explanation from the wife and children of Justice Isa about the nature and source of the funds for the three properties in the United Kingdom namely No. 40, Oakdale Road, London E11 4DL; No. 90, Adelaide Road, London E10 5NW; and No. 50, Coniston Court, Kendal Street, London W2 2AN.

The secretary would then place the report before SJC chairman who would lay it before the council to consider any action, order or proceedings, if any, in relation to the petitioner judge as the council might determine, the order had stated.

The receipt of the report, the laying of it before the council and the action/proceedings, if any, or orders or directions, if any, as might be taken, would be deemed, for the purposes of Article 209 of the Constitution, to be in exercise of the suo motu jurisdiction, the judgement had explained.

The order had also stated that if within 100 days from the date of this judgement, no report was received by the SJC secretary from the FBR chairman, he would inform the chairman of the council accordingly and might be required to explain why the report had not been sent.

If no reply is received, the secretary will bring such fact to the attention of the SJC chairman who may direct that the matter be placed before the council for consideration or action as the council may determine.

The action/proceedings, if any, would be initiated by the SJC for purposes of Article 209 of the Constitution, in exercise of suo motu, the judgement had explained.

Asked whether the PBC should not wait for the detailed judgement, Mr Saqi replied that the review petition would be filed as soon as possible in view of the time line provided in the judgement otherwise it would be of no use.

Meanwhile, a senior lawyer on condition of anonymity opined that the order to refer the matter to the FBR was correct since it was meant to remove the stigma of misconduct within a certain time period otherwise it would remain dangling over the head of Justice Isa.

The statement recorded by the wife of Justice Isa before the full court explaining the source of funds for the properties suggested that the family had enough documents to prove the point that the wife had the resources to acquire properties in the foreign country, he said.

Besides the wisdom behind the directive was also to establish what the judges of the full court highlighted on a number of occasions during the hearing that the judges were not above the law and amenable to the accountability, the lawyer said.

In the minority judgement, Justice Maqbool Baqar, Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Yahya Afridi had observed that one of the pivotal constitutional values was independence of judiciary and reiterated that “in our constitutional democracy, neither the petitioner judge, nor any other judge, or any individual or any institution, is above the law”.

The doors of the constitutional forum i.e. the SJC were always open, either on its own motion or for anyone who had a genuine and a bona fide grievance, amenable to the jurisdiction of the council against a judge of the constitutional court, the minority judgement had stated.

At the same time, it was equally important that a judge like any other citizen of Pakistan enjoyed the inalienable constitutional right to be treated in accordance with law, it had said. These fundamental values were to be protected at all cost to uphold the majesty and supremacy of the constitution and to honour the people of Pakistan who had adopted and given to themselves this constitution, the judgement had said.

https://dawn.com/news/3000781/pbc-now-has-misgivings-about-ruling-in-isa-case
 
Bewal Express said:
I think you didn't read the verdict. The govt asked the crook to provide a money trail, and the court agreed. So why should the President or anyone else resign.
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Happens when people celebrate too early, by just reading the news tickers or some tweets. They dont bother to read full judgement :)))
 
MenInG said:
ISLAMABAD: A day after the Supreme Court announced its verdict in the presidential reference against Justice Qazi Faez Isa, the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) — one of the petitioners — was on Saturday having second thoughts and may file a review petition against a part of the judgement.

Soon after the announcement of the judgement by a ten-judge full court, the PBC had issued a call to observe “Yaum-e-Tashak*kur” on Mon*day (June 22) to celebrate the victory of the cause of the rule of law, the constitutionalism and the independence of the judiciary.

But PBC vice chairman Abid Saqi on Saturday told Dawn that after a threadbare discussion among the members of the council, the PBC had decided to challenge paragraph 9 of the short order which the full court had announced.

“We have strong reservations against that part of the order since we believe it is illogical,” he explained.

Through paragraph 9, the majority judgement consisting of seven judges had ordered the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) chairman to furnish a report to the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) secretary, who happens to be the registrar of the Supreme Court.

The report so furnished will consist of details of the proceedings conducted by the commissioner inland revenue after seeking explanation from the wife and children of Justice Isa about the nature and source of the funds for the three properties in the United Kingdom namely No. 40, Oakdale Road, London E11 4DL; No. 90, Adelaide Road, London E10 5NW; and No. 50, Coniston Court, Kendal Street, London W2 2AN.

The secretary would then place the report before SJC chairman who would lay it before the council to consider any action, order or proceedings, if any, in relation to the petitioner judge as the council might determine, the order had stated.

The receipt of the report, the laying of it before the council and the action/proceedings, if any, or orders or directions, if any, as might be taken, would be deemed, for the purposes of Article 209 of the Constitution, to be in exercise of the suo motu jurisdiction, the judgement had explained.

The order had also stated that if within 100 days from the date of this judgement, no report was received by the SJC secretary from the FBR chairman, he would inform the chairman of the council accordingly and might be required to explain why the report had not been sent.

If no reply is received, the secretary will bring such fact to the attention of the SJC chairman who may direct that the matter be placed before the council for consideration or action as the council may determine.

The action/proceedings, if any, would be initiated by the SJC for purposes of Article 209 of the Constitution, in exercise of suo motu, the judgement had explained.

Asked whether the PBC should not wait for the detailed judgement, Mr Saqi replied that the review petition would be filed as soon as possible in view of the time line provided in the judgement otherwise it would be of no use.

Meanwhile, a senior lawyer on condition of anonymity opined that the order to refer the matter to the FBR was correct since it was meant to remove the stigma of misconduct within a certain time period otherwise it would remain dangling over the head of Justice Isa.

The statement recorded by the wife of Justice Isa before the full court explaining the source of funds for the properties suggested that the family had enough documents to prove the point that the wife had the resources to acquire properties in the foreign country, he said.

Besides the wisdom behind the directive was also to establish what the judges of the full court highlighted on a number of occasions during the hearing that the judges were not above the law and amenable to the accountability, the lawyer said.

In the minority judgement, Justice Maqbool Baqar, Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Yahya Afridi had observed that one of the pivotal constitutional values was independence of judiciary and reiterated that “in our constitutional democracy, neither the petitioner judge, nor any other judge, or any individual or any institution, is above the law”.

The doors of the constitutional forum i.e. the SJC were always open, either on its own motion or for anyone who had a genuine and a bona fide grievance, amenable to the jurisdiction of the council against a judge of the constitutional court, the minority judgement had stated.

At the same time, it was equally important that a judge like any other citizen of Pakistan enjoyed the inalienable constitutional right to be treated in accordance with law, it had said. These fundamental values were to be protected at all cost to uphold the majesty and supremacy of the constitution and to honour the people of Pakistan who had adopted and given to themselves this constitution, the judgement had said.

https://dawn.com/news/3000781/pbc-now-has-misgivings-about-ruling-in-isa-case
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The corrupt bar councils need to be targeted for their corruption.
 
I would request PTI cult-members to put their bhangra on hold for now. Your leader cannot do anything. He couldn’t even keep Nawaz behind the bars.

Nothing will happen to Justice Isa and all of this will be forgotten soon.
 
This seems to be a bhangra competition :inti

When the initial statement came out, one side was doing (a massive) bhangra.

When some more details came out, it was the other side.

Everyone hold your horses.
 
Mamoon said:
I would request PTI cult-members to put their bhangra on hold for now. Your leader cannot do anything. He couldn’t even keep Nawaz behind the bars.

Nothing will happen to Justice Isa and all of this will be forgotten soon.
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If hypocrisy had a face-Are you talking about NS? Isn't he the guy that said needed special treatment as the ex PM of PK? What did you mean by special treatment?
 
Abdullah719 said:
This seems to be a bhangra competition :inti

When the initial statement came out, one side was doing (a massive) bhangra.

When some more details came out, it was the other side.

Everyone hold your horses.
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Nooras wanted every penny from IK going back 35 years and gave it, every penny. So The case is over if Isa has the money trail, but it has to be every penny. IK went back 35 years, surely Isa can go back 15 years.
 
Bewal Express said:
If hypocrisy had a face-Are you talking about NS? Isn't he the guy that said needed special treatment as the ex PM of PK? What did you mean by special treatment?
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Nawaz was evaluated by a team of PTI doctors who declared that he was unstable and needed to be shifted to a hospital.

Now there are two possibilities: the team of doctors appointed by PTI were probably at the same level as the duffers in the government and somehow got tricked by Nawaz.

Or Nawaz was genuinely unwell.

You can pick either of the two options and it will not end well for you.

Furthermore, Imran was so helpless that when Nawaz boarded the plane, he didn’t even care about optics. He didn’t even bother to board on the plane on a stretcher or even a wheelchair which would have made him look unwell. He slapped PTI and its supporters on the face.

Looks like Nawaz took the go Nawaz go slogan too seriously. He is now chilling in London and Imran cannot do anything.

By the way, when will Nawaz return to Pakistan and walk into jail again?
 
Mamoon said:
Nawaz was evaluated by a team of PTI doctors who declared that he was unstable and needed to be shifted to a hospital.

Now there are two possibilities: the team of doctors appointed by PTI were probably at the same level as the duffers in the government and somehow got tricked by Nawaz.

Or Nawaz was genuinely unwell.

You can pick either of the two options and it will not end well for you.

Furthermore, Imran was so helpless that when Nawaz boarded the plane, he didn’t even care about optics. He didn’t even bother to board on the plane on a stretcher or even a wheelchair which would have made him look unwell. He slapped PTI and its supporters on the face.

Looks like Nawaz took the go Nawaz go slogan too seriously. He is now chilling in London and Imran cannot do anything.

By the way, when will Nawaz return to Pakistan and walk into jail again?
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I asked you if what you meant by special treatment? Please explain?
 
Bewal Express said:
I asked you if what you meant by special treatment? Please explain?
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The former PM of Pakistan deserves special treatment. You cannot treat him like a common man.

I despise Imran Khan, but if he is retired and comes to see me, do you think I will make him stand in line along with others? Of course not. He will get VIP treatment because of his status as ex-PM of Pakistan.
 
Mamoon said:
The former PM of Pakistan deserves special treatment. You cannot treat him like a common man.

I despise Imran Khan, but if he is retired and comes to see me, do you think I will make him stand in line along with others? Of course not. He will get VIP treatment because of his status as ex-PM of Pakistan.
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What does that mean? You use words that you don't understand, explain.
IK will never need a loser like you. There is nothing, and I mean nothing, supporters of killing journalists and pregnant women, can ever do for him. His special treatment is the love of millions of PK's.
 
Bewal Express said:
What does that mean? You use words that you don't understand, explain.
IK will never need a loser like you. There is nothing, and I mean nothing, supporters of killing journalists and pregnant women, can ever do for him. His special treatment is the love of millions of PK's.
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I am just giving you an example. If Imran ever needs treatment from a ‘loser’ like me, I will give him special protocol in terms of not making him wait for his turn or not taking any money from him etc., simply because I will respect his position as the ex-PM.

As far as the love of the millions is concerned, he betrayed the trust of these millions when he benefited from JKT’s black money.
 
Mamoon said:
I am just giving you an example. If Imran ever needs treatment from a ‘loser’ like me, I will give him special protocol in terms of not making him wait for his turn or not taking any money from him etc., simply because I will respect his position as the ex-PM.

As far as the love of the millions is concerned, he betrayed the trust of these millions when he benefited from JKT’s black money.
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Don't worry, he won't. You keep your special treatment for losers that you like. You know the murderer of journalists and alike. The Kaptaan is loved by millions and he will be remembered as long PK exists.
 
So can any cult-follower explain what stopped the government from investigating Justice Isa’s tax returns before filing the reference?

It might have strengthened the reference instead of the entire panel squashing it 10-0.

FBR is within its rights to investigate the tax returns of any individual. Nothing stopped them from questioning Justice Isa except the fact that there was nothing wrong.

The whole aim of this drama is to somehow frame Justice Isa one way or another. This is a witch-hunt.
 
ISLAMABAD: The wife of Justice Qazi Faez Isa on Wednesday informed the police that the life of her family was in danger as they were receiving threats of dire consequences, police said.

She requested the police to register a case against those who were threatening and harassing her family.

“I am the wife of Mr Justice Qazi Faez Isa, who is a judge of the Supreme Court, and to whom a death threat has been extended,” she said in her complaint, adding that a person in a video had said that her husband should be shot publicly. She also submitted a USB containing the threatening video message.

A search on the internet revealed the name of the person painting a target mark on her husband’s picture to be Agha Iftikharuddin Mirza, she said, adding that she had enclosed printouts of two documents which she had obtained from links appearing in the video, but she did not know if this was his real name.

“As you must know many powerful people are not happy with my husband and I suspect that this death threat to my husband is in continuation of what we have been facing,” Justice Isa’s wife said, adding that her father was seriously ill and today was the first day she had stepped out of the house after a long time.

“I do not want to lose my husband,” the complainant said.

Threatening to murder a judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan was the worst kind of terrorism, the complaint stated, adding that many powerful people wanted to get rid of Justice Isa and it was the duty of the police to find out who they were and to arrest them.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1565068/isas-wife-says-her-family-is-receiving-threats
 
ISLAMABAD: As the Supreme Court commences on Thursday (today) the hearing on the video speech containing derogatory remarks and threats against Justice Qazi Faez Isa and other judges, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday furnished an interim report highlighting that Rawal*pindi-based cleric Mirza Iftikharuddin had denied making the speech on anyone’s instigation or direction.

A two-judge bench comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Ijaz-ul-Ahsan will resume the hearing of the case initiated on a suo motu over the viral video containing derogatory, contemptuous and scandalous language against the institution of the judiciary and the judges.

The cleric owned up to the contents of the lecture he gave to over half a dozen faithful on June 14 (a week before the SC decision on the petition of Justice Isa against the filing of presidential reference against him).

In its report furnished through FIA director (law) Malik Tariq Mehmood, the investigation agency stated that Mirza had already deleted the video from YouTube and Facebook. It added that the FIA had also got the custody of Mirza and his accomplice Akbar Ali on physical remand till July 6.

The report explained that the IP addresses used by the accused persons for uploading the video have been traced and the concerned ISPs have been approached to provide the subscribers detail of the internet devices through which IP addresses were accessed. According to the FIA, the operators concerned have also been approached to obtain Character Detection and Recognition (CDR) and subscriber’s details of the SIMs in use of the two suspects to further unearth their probable nexus with other co-accused.

Only a day ago, Mirza submitted an affidavit before the Supreme Court, tendering an unconditional apology for ‘unintentionally’ uttering some words against honourable judges in a ‘private meeting’.

On the basis of the video clip, Justice Isa’s wife on June 24 lodged a case at the Islamabad Secretariat Police Station, complaining that death threats were being hurled at the judge of the Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, the FIA in its report stated that the investigation on the basis of FIR No 3 of 2020 under Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorist Act (ATA) read with sections 34, 500, 505 and 506 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and Section 20 of the Prevention of Electronic Crime Act (Peca) had been entrusted to a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) comprising Assistant Directors Khurram Saeed Rana, Mohammad Azmat Khan and Adnan Khan of CCRC and FIA’s counterterrorism wing inspector Raja Wajid Hussain.

During the course of investigation, two suspects Mirza and Akbar were arrested from whom an iPhone, a Samsung mobile phone, a Q-Mobile phone, a movie camera and a laptop were recovered and sent for forensic analysis.

The video speech was shown to both suspects and they had been thoroughly interrogated, the report said.

According to the FIA, the cleric claimed to be associated with Imam Bargah Qasre Abbas, Morgah, Rawalpindi. He has owned the contents of the video lecture and stated that his responsibility was to preach Islamic teachings. Besides, he admitted that he had been running ‘Iqra’ channel, a web TV, since 2017 in one of the rooms of his residence. His accomplice Akbar recorded his lectures and uploaded/managed his Youtube channel and Facebook page, the report said.

The FIA said Mirza admitted that on June 14, after Namaz-e-Maghrebain, he addressed six or seven namazis of the locality, where his assistant Akbar and Rasool Shah were also present. Akbar recorded the speech through the movie camera, edited and uploaded it without his consent on Youtube channel having URL: https://www.Youtube.com/channel/UCvUDG19AzcExacicaNqPPJW and Facebook account having URL web.facebook.com/mirza.iftikharuddin?rdc=1&rdr.

Mirza claimed when he came to know about uploading of the video, he immediately asked his aide to delete it. However, Akbar claimed that he became frightened and deleted the video when one of the page followers of Mirza Iftikhar told him that this act amounted to contempt of court.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1566450/fia-files-report-on-video-speech-to-sc-in-isa-case
 
MenInG said:
ISLAMABAD: As the Supreme Court commences on Thursday (today) the hearing on the video speech containing derogatory remarks and threats against Justice Qazi Faez Isa and other judges, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday furnished an interim report highlighting that Rawal*pindi-based cleric Mirza Iftikharuddin had denied making the speech on anyone’s instigation or direction.

A two-judge bench comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Ijaz-ul-Ahsan will resume the hearing of the case initiated on a suo motu over the viral video containing derogatory, contemptuous and scandalous language against the institution of the judiciary and the judges.

The cleric owned up to the contents of the lecture he gave to over half a dozen faithful on June 14 (a week before the SC decision on the petition of Justice Isa against the filing of presidential reference against him).

In its report furnished through FIA director (law) Malik Tariq Mehmood, the investigation agency stated that Mirza had already deleted the video from YouTube and Facebook. It added that the FIA had also got the custody of Mirza and his accomplice Akbar Ali on physical remand till July 6.

The report explained that the IP addresses used by the accused persons for uploading the video have been traced and the concerned ISPs have been approached to provide the subscribers detail of the internet devices through which IP addresses were accessed. According to the FIA, the operators concerned have also been approached to obtain Character Detection and Recognition (CDR) and subscriber’s details of the SIMs in use of the two suspects to further unearth their probable nexus with other co-accused.

Only a day ago, Mirza submitted an affidavit before the Supreme Court, tendering an unconditional apology for ‘unintentionally’ uttering some words against honourable judges in a ‘private meeting’.

On the basis of the video clip, Justice Isa’s wife on June 24 lodged a case at the Islamabad Secretariat Police Station, complaining that death threats were being hurled at the judge of the Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, the FIA in its report stated that the investigation on the basis of FIR No 3 of 2020 under Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorist Act (ATA) read with sections 34, 500, 505 and 506 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and Section 20 of the Prevention of Electronic Crime Act (Peca) had been entrusted to a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) comprising Assistant Directors Khurram Saeed Rana, Mohammad Azmat Khan and Adnan Khan of CCRC and FIA’s counterterrorism wing inspector Raja Wajid Hussain.

During the course of investigation, two suspects Mirza and Akbar were arrested from whom an iPhone, a Samsung mobile phone, a Q-Mobile phone, a movie camera and a laptop were recovered and sent for forensic analysis.

The video speech was shown to both suspects and they had been thoroughly interrogated, the report said.

According to the FIA, the cleric claimed to be associated with Imam Bargah Qasre Abbas, Morgah, Rawalpindi. He has owned the contents of the video lecture and stated that his responsibility was to preach Islamic teachings. Besides, he admitted that he had been running ‘Iqra’ channel, a web TV, since 2017 in one of the rooms of his residence. His accomplice Akbar recorded his lectures and uploaded/managed his Youtube channel and Facebook page, the report said.

The FIA said Mirza admitted that on June 14, after Namaz-e-Maghrebain, he addressed six or seven namazis of the locality, where his assistant Akbar and Rasool Shah were also present. Akbar recorded the speech through the movie camera, edited and uploaded it without his consent on Youtube channel having URL: https://www.Youtube.com/channel/UCvUDG19AzcExacicaNqPPJW and Facebook account having URL web.facebook.com/mirza.iftikharuddin?rdc=1&rdr.

Mirza claimed when he came to know about uploading of the video, he immediately asked his aide to delete it. However, Akbar claimed that he became frightened and deleted the video when one of the page followers of Mirza Iftikhar told him that this act amounted to contempt of court.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1566450/fia-files-report-on-video-speech-to-sc-in-isa-case
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The SC took Suo Motto notice of someone calling it corrupt but the families of Model Town Massacre are still waiting for justice 6 years later. I just hope this cleric doesn't back down.
 
SC issues contempt notice to cleric for video threatening Justice Isa

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected Rawalpindi-based cleric Agha Iftikharuddin Mirza's "unconditional apology" for making derogatory remarks and threats against Justice Qazi Faez Isa and other judges, issuing him a contempt of court notice and directing him to respond in seven days and to personally appear in the next hearing.

A day ago, Mirza had submitted an affidavit before the Supreme Court, tendering an unconditional apology for "unintentionally" uttering some words against the honourable judges in a "private meeting".

A two-judge bench comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Ijazul Ahsan heard the case. During the hearing, Justice Ahsan questioned whether such language could be allowed and if an apology can be accepted in such a case.

The chief justice remarked that there was "no room for mercy" in the case while Justice Ahsan said that the video "was not made by a child but by Mirza himself".

The court further observed that Mirza had a YouTube channel and he earned money through it.

"Such curse words are not used even in the streets. Islamic scholars recorded such a video and then made it public. He [Mirza] accepted in front of the Federal Investigation Agency that he recorded the video in the presence of seven worshippers," Justice Ahsan said.

The judge pointed out that on the one hand Mirza had accepted his crime by submitting an apology but he still claimed he had not committed a crime.

Sarkar Abbas, Mirza's lawyer, said his client was a heart patient and should be forgiven to which the chief justice said he [Mirza] should have kept his "tongue in check".

The chief justice berated Mirza's lawyer for not understanding the importance of the case and for taking it lightly. "We can send Iftikharuddin [Mirza] to jail for six months," he said.

Justice Ahsan said according to Attorney General Khalid Jawed Khan, the video could also be classified as a crime under the Criminal Procedure Code and anti-terrorism laws, adding that there was no room for forgiveness in such cases.

"The video was planned and pictures were used as well. These words [in the video] have been used against institutions. Forgiveness cannot be asked after using such words," Justice Ahsan remarked.

Attorney General Khalid Jawed Khan argued that Mirza had used "strong words" against the judiciary which had damaged its respect. But the AG did acknowledge that Mirza had been shifted to a hospital on complaints of heart pain and dizziness.

"He started getting dizzy after the judiciary took notice. If the court wants, it can announce punishment today if he pleads guilty," Justice Ahsan said.

The top court also refused to accept a letter by Justice Isa's wife and directed her to submit it according to court procedures. It also refused to hear arguments from lawyers of journalists Hamid Mir and Mohammad Maalik.

The case was adjourned until July 15.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1566565/s...e-to-cleric-for-video-threatening-justice-isa
 
ISLAMABAD: Cerina Isa, the wife of Justice Qazi Faez Isa, on Friday released the statement she had submitted along with required documents to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) a day ago, in compliance with the latter’s notice in an attempt to remove the propaganda against the judge’s family.

She said she continued to face harassment, humiliation and propaganda and expressed the hope that the FBR officials would not allow themselves to be used or bullied as she asked them to apply the same law to Prime Minister Imran Khan, Law Minister Farogh Nasim, former attorney general Anwar Mansoor and Assets Recovery Unit chairman Shahzad Akbar and their families.

“Every day we are told that they [the government] were striving for the ‘Madina ki Riyasat’, therefore I am sure these gentlemen will be only too happy to inform an ordinary taxpaying woman about how much tax they pay and the status of their wives and children’s properties and if not then I may have to ask them questions,” she said.

The copies of her statement were released at the National Press Club (NPC), Islamabad, through her counsel along with annexures regarding the three offshore properties.

She said she had to present the X-ray films before the media to negate the offensive propaganda that she was pretending that she was not well by using a walking stick at the FBR office.

Seeks tax records and property details of PM, law minister, ARU chairman, ex-AG and their families

In reply to Commissioner (IR) AEOI Zulfikar Ahmad, Mrs Isa wondered should FBR not ask Prime Minister Imran Khan why he paid less tax than her and yet somehow managed to buy very expensive properties and lives in a 300-kanal massive mansion.

Should the FBR not ask the PM, ARU chairman, law minister and ex-AG how they “illegally obtained her past income tax records and then disclosed the same”, she questioned.

“I did not want to drag anyone into this but I have had enough of being spied on, abused and harassed for the last year and made to feel like a common criminal,” she stated. “Please do not blame me if all that I ask FBR to provide me copies of the income tax records of the prime minister, Abdul Waheed Dogar (the original complainant), Mirza Shahzad Akbar, Farogh Naseem, Anwar Mansoor, Dr Moh*a*mmad Ashfaq Ahmed, and whether they show the properties of their wives and children in their income tax papers.

“Please provide copies of their returns from when they started paying income tax till now, as they had obtained and disclosed my records, she said adding they should not have objections if FBR treats them similarly.

“I’m sure as dedicated professional you will apply the law with an even hand and not allow yourself to be used or bullied,” she observed.

Mrs Isa said she paid tax of Rs576,540 in 2018 from the taxable income of Rs4 million while for the year 2019 she paid Rs809,970 on the income of Rs5.3 million. It was said she was not receiving FBR notices on June 25, she said, adding that the very day she had lost her father. This false pretext of not receiving the notices was then used to paste notices on the gate of her residence to humiliate her in front of her household staff and everyone in the neighbourhood, she alleged.

She disclosed that when she was in Quetta with her husband, they had not only received threats but also terrorists carried out an attack. “I feared that the next terrorist attack may be successful and I wanted to secure my children’s future,” the statement said, adding she helped them buy two properties in a relatively cheap area on the outskirts of London.

“My son worked in an estate agency and also did some private contractual work,” the statement said, adding her son-in-law was working for the UK Ministry of Justice and her daughter-in-law worked as a financial analyst in London.

“If I wanted to conceal our ownership of properties we could have easily purchased them using a sham offshore company to hide the properties ‘real owners’. If you don’t believe me, please ask Prime Minister Khan and his well experienced coterie as to how they concealed their own ownership properties abroad,” she alleged.

“FBR also asked for the money trail for the properties,” she said, adding she didn’t know what the FBR meant by money trail. “Please explain and identify the provision in the Income Tax Ordinance (ITO) 2001 where money trail is mentioned so that she can understand and answer the question.”

She also enclosed along with her statement to FBR return of income, wealth statement and foreign income and assets statement for the year 2018, 2019, certificate issued by UBL, Sta*ndard Chartered Bank’s certificate in respect of the foreign currency account of December 2019 showing deposits for the year 2003 to 2013 amounting to pounds 671,490 and remittances abroad during the years 2003 to 2013 amounting to pounds 698,002.

Moreover, she also annexed investment position certificate of the National Saving Centre (NSC), different tax deduction certificates issued by NSC, the property registers maintained by the Land Registry showing the date and price of all the three properties, pictures of the envelopes attached to the gate and returning the open original envelopes with notices to her daughter and son.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1568226/justice-isas-wife-makes-public-her-reply-to-fbr
 
MenInG said:
ISLAMABAD: Cerina Isa, the wife of Justice Qazi Faez Isa, on Friday released the statement she had submitted along with required documents to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) a day ago, in compliance with the latter’s notice in an attempt to remove the propaganda against the judge’s family.

She said she continued to face harassment, humiliation and propaganda and expressed the hope that the FBR officials would not allow themselves to be used or bullied as she asked them to apply the same law to Prime Minister Imran Khan, Law Minister Farogh Nasim, former attorney general Anwar Mansoor and Assets Recovery Unit chairman Shahzad Akbar and their families.

“Every day we are told that they [the government] were striving for the ‘Madina ki Riyasat’, therefore I am sure these gentlemen will be only too happy to inform an ordinary taxpaying woman about how much tax they pay and the status of their wives and children’s properties and if not then I may have to ask them questions,” she said.

The copies of her statement were released at the National Press Club (NPC), Islamabad, through her counsel along with annexures regarding the three offshore properties.

She said she had to present the X-ray films before the media to negate the offensive propaganda that she was pretending that she was not well by using a walking stick at the FBR office.

Seeks tax records and property details of PM, law minister, ARU chairman, ex-AG and their families

In reply to Commissioner (IR) AEOI Zulfikar Ahmad, Mrs Isa wondered should FBR not ask Prime Minister Imran Khan why he paid less tax than her and yet somehow managed to buy very expensive properties and lives in a 300-kanal massive mansion.

Should the FBR not ask the PM, ARU chairman, law minister and ex-AG how they “illegally obtained her past income tax records and then disclosed the same”, she questioned.

“I did not want to drag anyone into this but I have had enough of being spied on, abused and harassed for the last year and made to feel like a common criminal,” she stated. “Please do not blame me if all that I ask FBR to provide me copies of the income tax records of the prime minister, Abdul Waheed Dogar (the original complainant), Mirza Shahzad Akbar, Farogh Naseem, Anwar Mansoor, Dr Moh*a*mmad Ashfaq Ahmed, and whether they show the properties of their wives and children in their income tax papers.

“Please provide copies of their returns from when they started paying income tax till now, as they had obtained and disclosed my records, she said adding they should not have objections if FBR treats them similarly.

“I’m sure as dedicated professional you will apply the law with an even hand and not allow yourself to be used or bullied,” she observed.

Mrs Isa said she paid tax of Rs576,540 in 2018 from the taxable income of Rs4 million while for the year 2019 she paid Rs809,970 on the income of Rs5.3 million. It was said she was not receiving FBR notices on June 25, she said, adding that the very day she had lost her father. This false pretext of not receiving the notices was then used to paste notices on the gate of her residence to humiliate her in front of her household staff and everyone in the neighbourhood, she alleged.

She disclosed that when she was in Quetta with her husband, they had not only received threats but also terrorists carried out an attack. “I feared that the next terrorist attack may be successful and I wanted to secure my children’s future,” the statement said, adding she helped them buy two properties in a relatively cheap area on the outskirts of London.

“My son worked in an estate agency and also did some private contractual work,” the statement said, adding her son-in-law was working for the UK Ministry of Justice and her daughter-in-law worked as a financial analyst in London.

“If I wanted to conceal our ownership of properties we could have easily purchased them using a sham offshore company to hide the properties ‘real owners’. If you don’t believe me, please ask Prime Minister Khan and his well experienced coterie as to how they concealed their own ownership properties abroad,” she alleged.

“FBR also asked for the money trail for the properties,” she said, adding she didn’t know what the FBR meant by money trail. “Please explain and identify the provision in the Income Tax Ordinance (ITO) 2001 where money trail is mentioned so that she can understand and answer the question.”

She also enclosed along with her statement to FBR return of income, wealth statement and foreign income and assets statement for the year 2018, 2019, certificate issued by UBL, Sta*ndard Chartered Bank’s certificate in respect of the foreign currency account of December 2019 showing deposits for the year 2003 to 2013 amounting to pounds 671,490 and remittances abroad during the years 2003 to 2013 amounting to pounds 698,002.

Moreover, she also annexed investment position certificate of the National Saving Centre (NSC), different tax deduction certificates issued by NSC, the property registers maintained by the Land Registry showing the date and price of all the three properties, pictures of the envelopes attached to the gate and returning the open original envelopes with notices to her daughter and son.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1568226/justice-isas-wife-makes-public-her-reply-to-fbr
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This crooked family have been playing cat and mouse game with the FBR. All they have to show is how his the properties in London were paid for and how the money got there. If its legitimately done, it could have been shown a year ago. Instead we have a CJPs wife attacking the PM and the SC that gave the decision. Come what may, Isa is not fit to be the CJP
 
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Justice Qazi Faez Isa files petition seeking review of SC verdict, says 'no justification' for FBR proceedings

Justice Qazi Faez Isa on Monday approached the Supreme Court seeking a review of its June 19 majority order requiring the verification of three offshore properties in his wife and children's name by tax authorities.

Filed through senior counsel Munir A. Malik, the petition argued that the top court's short order had "material errors of facts and jurisdiction". It added that many of these were in respect to matters with regard to which neither Justice Isa nor his family were heard.

It also contended that the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) had initiated proceedings against Justice Isa and his family members without waiting for the top court's detailed order.

The majority order by seven judges had quashed the presidential reference against Jus*tice Isa but ordered the FBR chairman to furnish a report under his signatures to the secretary of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC), containing details of the proceedings conducted by the commissioner inland revenue after seeking an explanation from the wife and children of Justice Isa about the nature and source of the funds used to purchase three properties in the United Kingdom.

"After the reference against the petitioner was quashed, there was no justification to direct initiation of FBR proceedings against his wife and children, give guidance and free licence to the acts of an executive which had admittedly acted unlawfully against the petitioner.

"Similarly, there was no justification to direct the FBR chairman to submit the report of such proceedings to the SJC nor for the SJC's secretary to monitor the delivery of that report, least of all to link the fate of the FBR proceedings against the petitioner's wife and children [...] with proceedings that may be initiated by the SJC against the petitioner.

"Neither could the court have suggested to the SJC (or its chairman) to exercise its (or his) discretion or purported suo motu jurisdiction or proceed in a particular fashion to solicit or summon the report from FBR."

The petition also stated that subsequent to the passing of the order, the FBR chairman was "unlawfully" changed, referring to the posting of Muhammad Javed Ghani — the fourth appointment made to the position since the ruling PTI took office.

"The only reason to act in this manner is to get the desired results from the FBR, which further demonstrates extreme malice."

The petition also criticised the FBR's move to paste notices outside Justice Isa's residence when an arrest warrant had not been issued and the petitioner had not been declared an absconder. "The only object that this novelty served was to ridicule and humiliate the petitioner and his wife further and before every staff and resident of the Judge's Enclave."

It added that the contesting respondents had apparently prevailed upon the FBR to proceed against Justice Isa's family without waiting for the detailed reasons of the "impugned order" to be issued. "The objective thereof appears to be to make the constitutional right of review redundant."

The petition contended that Justice Isa had filed the petition as the time limit for doing so was expiring, even though the detailed order had not been released. "However, the petitioner reserves his rights to submit further, additional and other grounds once the detailed reasons are issued."

The petition urged the apex court to review and "excise" its directives and to stop action on the court's directives till the review petition is decided.

On July 18, the the Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA) had approached the SC seeking a review of its June 19 majority order.

Filed through senior counsel Rasheed A. Razvi, the SHCBA petition argued that the directives, observations or contents of paragraphs three to 11 were unnecessary, superfluous, contradictory, excessive and unlawful, thus liable to be reviewed and deleted since it constituted mistake and error apparent on the face of the record.

Earlier, the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) had filed a review petition seeking the deletion of the court’s directives requiring verification by the tax authorities of three offshore properties in the name of the wife and children of Justice Qazi Faez Isa.

“These directives, observations and contents from paragraphs three to 11 are unnecessary, superfluous, contradictory, excessive and unlawful and thus liable to be deleted from the short order,” pleaded the petition filed through SCBA president Syed Qalb-e-Hassan.
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Justice Isa’s wife accuses FBR officers of acting on ‘instructions’

ISLAMABAD: The wife of Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court on Thursday accused the officers of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) of losing their credibility and ability to act independently.

“Clearly, they are acting on instructions,” Sarina Isa alleged in a one-page statement issued to the media, highlighting how she personally delivered again her July 21 letter to FBR Commissioner Zulfiqar Ahmed that she wrote in reply to his “rejoinder”.

In the letter, she reproduced the 12 queries she had raised in her first letter written on July 9. “I am still waiting for the answers,” she said in the statement, adding that she had also requested for copies of her tax declarations which she did not have as the gentleman who used to file her tax declarations through Rehan Hasan Naqvi, had passed away.

Not providing copies of her own returns was troubling because the FBR was referring to the returns which they said she had filed when she stopped working and had no taxable income, Ms Isa feared, adding that this was alarming and suggested “manufacturing”.

She said she had also informed the FBR about the filing of a review petition in the Supreme Court on July 20 in which she made serious allegations against certain officers of the FBR and members of the present government like Law Minister Dr Farogh Nasim, Commissioner (IR) Zulfikar Ahmad, Dr Mohammad Ashfaq Ahmed and Manzoor Ahmed Kayani.

These allegations comprised 18 paragraphs in the statement she submitted to the FBR on July 9, Ms Isa said, adding that these paragraphs were supported with the FBR’s and government’s own documents. But there has been no response, she added.

She said she had also pointed out the obvious disparity in language between the earlier notice and the FBR’s rejoinder, both under Zulfiqar Ahmed’s signature which, she feared, were not written by the same person. Again no explanation was offered, the statement said.

Ms Isa said she had also pointed out how allegedly mockery of the word “confidential” was made when an open envelope and its “confidential” contents on full display were pasted on the gate of her husband’s official residence.

“I had in writing informed Zulfiqar Ahmed that I will have no option but to release my letter of July 21 so that the people could judge for themselves; but I still waited expecting to be given copies of the returns I am said to have filed and some reasonable explanation about my concerns but none has come after a week’s passage,” she added.

In her July 21 letter, Ms Isa had regretted that rather than appreciating people voluntarily coming forward to declare their income and paying taxes, they were attacked. “Or is it because I am a woman and the misogynist coterie does not respect women’s independent financial status?”

She asked as to how many non-salaried women in Pakistan paid taxes. “I did not want to drag anyone into this but I have had enough of being spied on, abused and harassed for the last year and made to feel like a common criminal,” she regretted.

“Please do not blame me if all that I ask FBR is to provide me copies of the income tax records of the prime minister, Abdul Wah*eed Dogar, Mirza Shahzad Akbar, Farogh Naseem, Anwar Mansoor, Dr Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmed, and whether they show the properties of their wives and children in their tax papers,” she said in her July 21 letter.
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ISLAMABAD: Justice Qazi Faez Isa’s wife, Sarina Isa, on Saturday alleged that since her confidential and legally-protected income tax and bank records were illegally accessed, she also wanted similar information about those who were provided her details.

In a statement, Ms Isa stated that she wanted information about the people who accessed or were provided her confidential information and documents, especially Prime Minister Imran Khan, Law Minister Dr Farogh Nasim, Asset Recovery Unit Chairman Mirza Shahzad Akbar, Dr Mohammad Ashfaq Ahmed and complainant Abdul Waheed Dogar.

“They should not object because they have held or hold public office, while one of them, who is a government servant, complains that my family and I are not tax compliant,” she alleged in the statement.

The statement is annexed with her Aug 28 reply to the notices issued by commissioner (IR) FBR on Aug 21 under Section 122(9) and Section 111(1)(b) of the Income Tax Ordinance (ITO) 2001.

It stated that she was a private person who had never held public office or a position in government and had worked and paid a total of Rs809,970 and Rs576,540 as tax during the last two years.

Says FBR wants her to explain every rupee she earned during last 38 years

Earlier, she issued two similar statements, explaining her position in response to notices issued by the board.

In her reply, she asked the FBR to furnish her income tax returns on which the authority was relying, adding that the board wanted her to reconstruct her life and explain every rupee earned by her since she started working in Karachi American School some 38 years ago.

Highlighting Section 174(3) of the ITO, she recalled that the ordinance did not require an individual to maintain any record for more than six years after the end of the tax year to which they relate.

She argued that she was under no legal obligation to keep providing information to the FBR, but still she did voluntarily.

“Without prejudice to all my constitutional and legal rights, I also do not want to give you a pretext to allege that I did not provide information,” she stated, adding that it had become painfully clear to her that the Federal Board of Revenue intended to pass an alleged unjustified and illegal order since it did not consider to be bound by law.

She alleged that the FBR claimed that she could not have earned and saved enough to justify her purchase of three properties in London — one for £236,000 in the year 2004 and two in 2013 for £245,000 and £270,000, respectively.

Referring to Section 116A of the ordinance which was inserted through the Finance Act 2018, when for the first time foreign income and asset statement was required to be filed, she complied with the new legal requirement and filed her returns and statements with regard to foreign income and assets for the tax year 2018 and again for tax year 2019.

But the FBR has not explained under which provision she was required to disclose the foreign income and assets before the stated amendment.

Likewise, the FBR disregarded her agriculture income by purportedly relying on Section 111 of the ITO and treating it as unexplained income.

The board intentionally disregarded the fact that the proviso to Section 111 of the ordinance accepted income derived from agriculture on which income tax paid under the relevant provincial law was added through the Finance Act 2013, the statement added.

Therefore, the agricultural income cannot be disregarded irrespective of whether the provincial income tax was paid or restricted to adjustment to the extent of such payment.

She said she owned about 278 acres of agricultural land which was run and managed by her late father, who passed away on June 25, 2020.

She said she continued to derive substantial income from her agricultural land, investing some amount in saving certificates issued by the government.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1577091/justice-isas-wife-seeks-income-tax-details-of-pm-others
 
MenInG said:
ISLAMABAD: Justice Qazi Faez Isa’s wife, Sarina Isa, on Saturday alleged that since her confidential and legally-protected income tax and bank records were illegally accessed, she also wanted similar information about those who were provided her details.

In a statement, Ms Isa stated that she wanted information about the people who accessed or were provided her confidential information and documents, especially Prime Minister Imran Khan, Law Minister Dr Farogh Nasim, Asset Recovery Unit Chairman Mirza Shahzad Akbar, Dr Mohammad Ashfaq Ahmed and complainant Abdul Waheed Dogar.

“They should not object because they have held or hold public office, while one of them, who is a government servant, complains that my family and I are not tax compliant,” she alleged in the statement.

The statement is annexed with her Aug 28 reply to the notices issued by commissioner (IR) FBR on Aug 21 under Section 122(9) and Section 111(1)(b) of the Income Tax Ordinance (ITO) 2001.

It stated that she was a private person who had never held public office or a position in government and had worked and paid a total of Rs809,970 and Rs576,540 as tax during the last two years.

Says FBR wants her to explain every rupee she earned during last 38 years

Earlier, she issued two similar statements, explaining her position in response to notices issued by the board.

In her reply, she asked the FBR to furnish her income tax returns on which the authority was relying, adding that the board wanted her to reconstruct her life and explain every rupee earned by her since she started working in Karachi American School some 38 years ago.

Highlighting Section 174(3) of the ITO, she recalled that the ordinance did not require an individual to maintain any record for more than six years after the end of the tax year to which they relate.

She argued that she was under no legal obligation to keep providing information to the FBR, but still she did voluntarily.

“Without prejudice to all my constitutional and legal rights, I also do not want to give you a pretext to allege that I did not provide information,” she stated, adding that it had become painfully clear to her that the Federal Board of Revenue intended to pass an alleged unjustified and illegal order since it did not consider to be bound by law.

She alleged that the FBR claimed that she could not have earned and saved enough to justify her purchase of three properties in London — one for £236,000 in the year 2004 and two in 2013 for £245,000 and £270,000, respectively.

Referring to Section 116A of the ordinance which was inserted through the Finance Act 2018, when for the first time foreign income and asset statement was required to be filed, she complied with the new legal requirement and filed her returns and statements with regard to foreign income and assets for the tax year 2018 and again for tax year 2019.

But the FBR has not explained under which provision she was required to disclose the foreign income and assets before the stated amendment.

Likewise, the FBR disregarded her agriculture income by purportedly relying on Section 111 of the ITO and treating it as unexplained income.

The board intentionally disregarded the fact that the proviso to Section 111 of the ordinance accepted income derived from agriculture on which income tax paid under the relevant provincial law was added through the Finance Act 2013, the statement added.

Therefore, the agricultural income cannot be disregarded irrespective of whether the provincial income tax was paid or restricted to adjustment to the extent of such payment.

She said she owned about 278 acres of agricultural land which was run and managed by her late father, who passed away on June 25, 2020.

She said she continued to derive substantial income from her agricultural land, investing some amount in saving certificates issued by the government.

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The crooked judge took bribes to dismiss the Hudbiya reference and has been caught red handed. The discrepancy between her purported income and the cost of the property in London is 9 crore. Isa should be going to jail.
 
ISLAMABAD: The wife of Supreme Court judge Justice Qazi Faez Isa has refused to accept a tax liability of Rs35 million, as declared by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR).

In a statement issued on Friday in response to an FBR letter, she said she was being “condemned unheard” and therefore intended to file an appeal against the order.

Sarena Isa alleged in her letter that a “team of Prime Minister Imran Khan” — comprising Law Minister Farogh Naseem, adviser on accountability and interior Mirza Shahzad Akbar, former attorney general Anwar Mansoor Khan, Mohammad Ashfaq Ahmed and Zulfiqar Ahmed from a “non-independent FBR” as well as the complainant — fabricated a false case against her in connivance with each other.

She said that “Mr Akbar set up and chaired a private organisation, the Assets Recovery Unit (ARU), and appointed a government servant, Ashfaq Ahmed, as its member. These gentlemen directed FBR’s Zulfiqar Ahmed to prepare a report, which he did, against my husband and me in a day”.

She went on to declare that Nausheen Amjad, the chairperson of FBR, was replaced and a chosen officer appointed instead. This was done on July 4, 2020, or immediately after the Supreme Court had issued its order on June 19.

“However, the new selected chairman was temporarily appointed for the duration of my case; something which had never happened before,” Mrs Isa said.

Her statement pointed out that “of all the commissioners in FBR the one selected by Mr Imran Khan’s team was Mr Zulfiqar Ahmed, a gentleman who had already given his opinion against my husband and me on May 10, 2019”.

She said the officer did not have legal jurisdiction nor territorial jurisdiction in her case because her returns had always been filed in Karachi. Only a Karachi-based official could look into her tax affairs.

“Mr Zulfiqar Ahmed has now come up with a 164-page order dated September 14, 2020 and created an artificial tax liability of over Rs35 million. I don’t even know if he wrote the order himself,” her statement said.

Citing the FBR order, she said the officer even mentioned that “I refused the delivery of notice on June 25, 2020, the day my father died, and in order to humiliate my husband he also addressed the notice to Justice Isa’s official residence”.

She said that attempts were even made to intimidate the tax consultant whom she had contacted.

She also claimed that death threats were hurled at her husband that were “unlikely to be a mere coincidence”.

The government on its own should have registered an FIR against the terrorist who had vowed to murder a Supreme Court judge, she said, but it looked the other way. “I had to go myself to the police station with a written complaint,” she added.

According to her statement, the police did nothing and the matter was referred to the Federal Investigation Agency without her knowledge. The chief Justice, however, took notice and proceeded in the matter.

In her letter, Mrs Isa also said the FBR order was passed even though she had not been heard even once. “Mr Zulfiqar Ahmed does not say whether he decides all cases without hearing the taxpayers or this special treatment is for a taxpayer who happens to be married to a judge, one who Mr Imran Khan’s government is desperate to remove.”

The statement declared that she intended to file an appeal against the FBR order because it ignored all the material facts produced before him during the course of inquiry.

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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court held on Friday that President Arif Alvi did not form a considered opinion under Article 209(5) of the Constitution and therefore the presidential reference against Justice Qazi Faez Isa ‘suffered with multiple defects’.

And since there was no valid authorisation for the investigation, the respondents illegally accessed the tax records of Justice Isa, observed Justice Umar Ata Bandial in a 174-page majority judgement he has authored.

Justice Bandial, who headed a 10-judge full court hearing a set of petitions challenging the filing of the presidential reference against Justice Isa, also observed that there was no authorisation for investigating the affairs of Justice Isa by the president and Prime Minister Imran Khan, instead the authorisation of Law Minister Dr Farogh Nasim was obtained.

On June 19, the Supreme Court through a short order had quashed the presidential reference to wash away the stigma of misconduct on Justice Isa over non-declaration of three offshore properties in the name of his wife and children.

The detailed judgement said that the show cause notice to Justice Isa by the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC), except for seeking information about Mrs Isa’s ownership of the undeclared London properties, and the remaining contents of the reference were without foundation.

Accordingly, the narrative in the notice alleging misconduct by the judge and the subsequent direction to him to file a response had lost force and could not be sustained, Justice Bandial observed, adding that the notice could not survive in limbo and must abate.

The judgement also has some flak for the former attorney general (AG) Anwar Mansoor for the strong language in his written rejoinder to the judge’s preliminary response filed before the SJC.

“We would like to record our disapproval of the language used by AG for a judge of the Supreme Court,” Justice Bandial said, adding that since the brazen language was used in the rejoinder and not the reference, it did not form part of the record before the president. As a result, it did not influence the president’s decision to forward the reference to the SJC for inquiry and therefore, being subsequent to the preparation of the reference and its summary, the AG’s remarks could not be said to reveal malice in the filing of the reference, Justice Bandial explained.

He also regretted that former information minister Dr Firdaus Ashiq Awan made contemptuous remarks about Justice Isa in public through a press conference and said an independent contempt proceeding would be initiated against her separately.

About the creation of the Asset Recovery Unit (ARU), the majority judgement declared that there was neither any fatal defect in the creation of the ARU nor was there any unlawfulness in the appointment of Mirza Shahzad Akbar as the special assistant to the prime minister on accountability.

On the covert surveillance of the judges, the majority judgement said the counsel for Justice Isa failed to produce any evidence to demonstrate that either (activities of) his client or his family had been monitored or their communications intercepted.

The judgement however explained that though it was correct to hold that there had been unlawful surveillance and a violation of Article 14(1) of the Constitution in the Benazir Bhutto case, giving the same ruling on the facts of the present case would amount to stretching beyond its ambit.

Finding holes in the reference, Justice Bandial also observed that no notice was issued to Mrs Isa as required under Section 116(1) of the Income Tax Ordinance (ITO) before the filing of the reference and Justice Isa was presumed to be under the obligation to declare the assets of his independent wife and adult children on the basis of an unsettled and disputed interpretation of Section 116(1)(b) of the ITO.

There was neither any evidence nor the nomination of a predicate offence in the reference to support the allegation of money laundering against the judge, Justice Bandial observed, adding that there was also no evidence that the petitioner had violated the regime under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act.

Justice Bandial observed that the president had received inadmissible advice from the then AG and the law minister — the chief architects of the reference — on the strengths and weaknesses of the reference.

The president did not get considered, fair and objective advice from a third party on the questions of law noted in the reference and also failed to notice various legal and procedural defects in the reference, the judgement explained.

These illegal acts of the respondents (government) depicted their utter disregard of the law as filing of the reference under Article 209 of the Constitution that was signed by the president and which presented a charge sheet against the judge was a matter requiring utmost prudence and caution by its framers, Justice Bandial noted.

In the present case the actions of the respondents violated not only the express provisions of the constitution, the Rules of Business 1973, ITO and Anti Money Laundering Act but also ignored the law laid down in the 2010 Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry case, which specifically set out certain safeguards to protect Superior Court Judges from arbitrary actions of the executive, the judgement said.

Therefore, in essence, the respondents had paid scant attention to the mandate of the relevant laws governing the field of presidential references, Justice Bandial observed. Under these circumstances, the errors committed by them in the preparation and framing of the reference could not be termed as mere illegalities, instead, in the context of Article 209 their errors amounted to a “wanton disregard of the law”, he regretted.

Being arbitrary and illegal, these acts had ceased to be actions contemplated by any of the applicable laws such as the constitution and the ITO and thus, as a result, although the preparation and framing of the reference was not patently motivated with malice, the scale and degree of the illegalities were such that the reference was deemed to be tainted with mala fide in law and therefore quashed, the judgement noted.

It also explained why the June 19 short order had ordered the Federal Board of Revenue chairman to submit his report about the proceedings before the commissioner (inland revenue) to the SJC for its consideration. This was done to give the SJC the chance, if so wished, to commence proceedings against Justice Isa in exercise of its suo motu jurisdiction.

However, Justice Bandial reiterated that the short order merely issued a direction to the FBR chairman and in no way obliged the SJC to take any action based on the report.

The SJC may do so of its own volition if it considers that the report justifies any action against the petitioner judge but it may also file the report if it finds that the same contains no substance/merit.

Justice Bandial observed that the SJC was the only constitutional body which could examine the conduct of a superior court judge and the earlier direction for disclosure of the findings and the record of the verification proceedings by the FBR to the council acknowledged the latter’s exclusive jurisdiction in this matter.

Consequently, he said, the FBR chairman’s report was a piece of information to be evaluated by the SJC in its suo motu jurisdiction and at the same time the short order had preserved the rights of the affected taxpayers, Mrs Isa and her children, under the ITO. This includes the right to appeal against the decision of the commissioner or against any other adverse order passed at the appellate stage.

“To our minds, the two directions, namely, the filing of the report by the chairman FBR before the SJC and the protection of the affected persons right to appeal, issued by the court were necessary in the interests of justice,” the majority judgement said.

The jurisdiction of the FBR was concerned with taxing income whereas the jurisdiction of the SJC was related only with the misconduct of the judge, it said. Therefore, the proceedings and/or the outcome before one forum do not affect those of the other forum.

However, the SJC may, if so inclined in the exercise of its suo motu jurisdiction conferred by the constitution, take into consideration any proceedings before the tax authorities or orders passed by them.

Justice Bandial also explained that the short order’s direction to refer the matter to the FBR was primarily based on two grounds: to establish that judges of the superior court were answerable for allegations casting aspersions not only on their personal integrity but also on the integrity of the institution and to honour the petitioner’s plea that the allegation of absence of source of funds and money laundering must be first put to Mrs Isa who was an independent taxpayer.

Published in Dawn, October 24th, 2020
 
MenInG said:
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court held on Friday that President Arif Alvi did not form a considered opinion under Article 209(5) of the Constitution and therefore the presidential reference against Justice Qazi Faez Isa ‘suffered with multiple defects’.

And since there was no valid authorisation for the investigation, the respondents illegally accessed the tax records of Justice Isa, observed Justice Umar Ata Bandial in a 174-page majority judgement he has authored.

Justice Bandial, who headed a 10-judge full court hearing a set of petitions challenging the filing of the presidential reference against Justice Isa, also observed that there was no authorisation for investigating the affairs of Justice Isa by the president and Prime Minister Imran Khan, instead the authorisation of Law Minister Dr Farogh Nasim was obtained.

On June 19, the Supreme Court through a short order had quashed the presidential reference to wash away the stigma of misconduct on Justice Isa over non-declaration of three offshore properties in the name of his wife and children.

The detailed judgement said that the show cause notice to Justice Isa by the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC), except for seeking information about Mrs Isa’s ownership of the undeclared London properties, and the remaining contents of the reference were without foundation.

Accordingly, the narrative in the notice alleging misconduct by the judge and the subsequent direction to him to file a response had lost force and could not be sustained, Justice Bandial observed, adding that the notice could not survive in limbo and must abate.

The judgement also has some flak for the former attorney general (AG) Anwar Mansoor for the strong language in his written rejoinder to the judge’s preliminary response filed before the SJC.

“We would like to record our disapproval of the language used by AG for a judge of the Supreme Court,” Justice Bandial said, adding that since the brazen language was used in the rejoinder and not the reference, it did not form part of the record before the president. As a result, it did not influence the president’s decision to forward the reference to the SJC for inquiry and therefore, being subsequent to the preparation of the reference and its summary, the AG’s remarks could not be said to reveal malice in the filing of the reference, Justice Bandial explained.

He also regretted that former information minister Dr Firdaus Ashiq Awan made contemptuous remarks about Justice Isa in public through a press conference and said an independent contempt proceeding would be initiated against her separately.

About the creation of the Asset Recovery Unit (ARU), the majority judgement declared that there was neither any fatal defect in the creation of the ARU nor was there any unlawfulness in the appointment of Mirza Shahzad Akbar as the special assistant to the prime minister on accountability.

On the covert surveillance of the judges, the majority judgement said the counsel for Justice Isa failed to produce any evidence to demonstrate that either (activities of) his client or his family had been monitored or their communications intercepted.

The judgement however explained that though it was correct to hold that there had been unlawful surveillance and a violation of Article 14(1) of the Constitution in the Benazir Bhutto case, giving the same ruling on the facts of the present case would amount to stretching beyond its ambit.

Finding holes in the reference, Justice Bandial also observed that no notice was issued to Mrs Isa as required under Section 116(1) of the Income Tax Ordinance (ITO) before the filing of the reference and Justice Isa was presumed to be under the obligation to declare the assets of his independent wife and adult children on the basis of an unsettled and disputed interpretation of Section 116(1)(b) of the ITO.

There was neither any evidence nor the nomination of a predicate offence in the reference to support the allegation of money laundering against the judge, Justice Bandial observed, adding that there was also no evidence that the petitioner had violated the regime under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act.

Justice Bandial observed that the president had received inadmissible advice from the then AG and the law minister — the chief architects of the reference — on the strengths and weaknesses of the reference.

The president did not get considered, fair and objective advice from a third party on the questions of law noted in the reference and also failed to notice various legal and procedural defects in the reference, the judgement explained.

These illegal acts of the respondents (government) depicted their utter disregard of the law as filing of the reference under Article 209 of the Constitution that was signed by the president and which presented a charge sheet against the judge was a matter requiring utmost prudence and caution by its framers, Justice Bandial noted.

In the present case the actions of the respondents violated not only the express provisions of the constitution, the Rules of Business 1973, ITO and Anti Money Laundering Act but also ignored the law laid down in the 2010 Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry case, which specifically set out certain safeguards to protect Superior Court Judges from arbitrary actions of the executive, the judgement said.

Therefore, in essence, the respondents had paid scant attention to the mandate of the relevant laws governing the field of presidential references, Justice Bandial observed. Under these circumstances, the errors committed by them in the preparation and framing of the reference could not be termed as mere illegalities, instead, in the context of Article 209 their errors amounted to a “wanton disregard of the law”, he regretted.

Being arbitrary and illegal, these acts had ceased to be actions contemplated by any of the applicable laws such as the constitution and the ITO and thus, as a result, although the preparation and framing of the reference was not patently motivated with malice, the scale and degree of the illegalities were such that the reference was deemed to be tainted with mala fide in law and therefore quashed, the judgement noted.

It also explained why the June 19 short order had ordered the Federal Board of Revenue chairman to submit his report about the proceedings before the commissioner (inland revenue) to the SJC for its consideration. This was done to give the SJC the chance, if so wished, to commence proceedings against Justice Isa in exercise of its suo motu jurisdiction.

However, Justice Bandial reiterated that the short order merely issued a direction to the FBR chairman and in no way obliged the SJC to take any action based on the report.

The SJC may do so of its own volition if it considers that the report justifies any action against the petitioner judge but it may also file the report if it finds that the same contains no substance/merit.

Justice Bandial observed that the SJC was the only constitutional body which could examine the conduct of a superior court judge and the earlier direction for disclosure of the findings and the record of the verification proceedings by the FBR to the council acknowledged the latter’s exclusive jurisdiction in this matter.

Consequently, he said, the FBR chairman’s report was a piece of information to be evaluated by the SJC in its suo motu jurisdiction and at the same time the short order had preserved the rights of the affected taxpayers, Mrs Isa and her children, under the ITO. This includes the right to appeal against the decision of the commissioner or against any other adverse order passed at the appellate stage.

“To our minds, the two directions, namely, the filing of the report by the chairman FBR before the SJC and the protection of the affected persons right to appeal, issued by the court were necessary in the interests of justice,” the majority judgement said.

The jurisdiction of the FBR was concerned with taxing income whereas the jurisdiction of the SJC was related only with the misconduct of the judge, it said. Therefore, the proceedings and/or the outcome before one forum do not affect those of the other forum.

However, the SJC may, if so inclined in the exercise of its suo motu jurisdiction conferred by the constitution, take into consideration any proceedings before the tax authorities or orders passed by them.

Justice Bandial also explained that the short order’s direction to refer the matter to the FBR was primarily based on two grounds: to establish that judges of the superior court were answerable for allegations casting aspersions not only on their personal integrity but also on the integrity of the institution and to honour the petitioner’s plea that the allegation of absence of source of funds and money laundering must be first put to Mrs Isa who was an independent taxpayer.

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Dawn was hoping for much more from the SC. This SC judgement says a lot but in reality it says nothing to help Qazi the crooked judge. Remember when Dawn and others claimed that IK, Alvi or Shazad Akbar could be sent home, well nothing. The jist of the judgement is that Qazi isn't above the law and cannot hide behind saying these assets belong to my wife and children. The case will soon be back in the SJC and the crooked judge has to explain where he got the money to purchase the property in London
 
Supreme Court's Justice Qazi Faez Isa on Thursday maintained that Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) members former top judge Asif Saeed Khosa and Justice (retd) Sheikh Azmat Saeed were biased against him.

A 10-judge larger bench headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandial took up a review petition against the apex court's June 19 order wherein the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) was directed to proceed against the undeclared properties of Justice Isa's family members.

During the hearing, Justice Isa accused SJC members, especially former CJ Asif Saeed Khosa and Justice (retd) Sheikh Azmat Saeed, of being biased against him.

“Justice [retd] Khosa stabbed me in the back. Azmat Saeed was my friend. I was saddened at his decision,” he added.

Read more: SC quashes presidential reference against Justice Isa

He also elaborated as to how the SJC held meetings during summer vacations and he was asked to submit a written response on the presidential reference.

Later, the SJC's opinion on the complaint against him was uploaded on Supreme Court’s website.

Justice Munib Akhtar, however, asked him as to why he was arguing on the issue of biasedness against the SJC as both judges had already retired.

On this, Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah asked Justice Isa as to whether or not he was saying that he had approached the Supreme Court against the SJC and now again referring his matter to the council.

On one occasion, Justice Munib in a loud voice asked Justice Isa not to attribute to him anything which he had not said.

“You are here to assist the court and respond to the queries of the bench,” he added.

Justice Isa complained that the SC had not taken coercive action against former attorney general for Pakistan Anwar Mansoor Khan over his statement that one or two members of the bench had helped him in drafting his petition.

Justice Bandial told him that he was unaware about the facts as Anwar had resigned.

“You are annoying the bench,” Bandial added.

Justice Isa replied that the government had forced Anwar to resign as the apex court had neither issued a contempt notice to him or sent him behind bars.

Justice Bandial told him that it was not their job to send people to jail as they only decided cases.

Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik urged Justice Isa that he should act like a counsel and save his time.

Another judge Justice Maqbool Baqar also urged him to focus on the core issues in his review petition.

At the start of the proceedings of the first hearing of his review petition, Justice Isa apologised to his wife and other family members for the hardships they were facing because of him.

The SC judge, however, said he would fight till the end.

He added that he was being removed due to his ruling in Faizabad dharna case.

“Tehreek-e-Labbaik leader Khadim Rizvi did not file a review against the judgment. However, others including the PTI and the MQM, which were part of the government, filed review petitions against the verdict,” he pointed out.

Justice Isa also wondered as to why the review petitions against thr Faizabad dharna judgment were not being fixed for the last two years.

The judge agreed with the first part of the SC's June 19, 2020 order wherein the reference was quashed.

However, he raised objections on the second part wherein the matter was referred to the FBR for inquiry.

Justice Isa claimed that the order dud not come under the purview of Article 184 (3) and Article 175 (2) of the Constitution.

Likewise, it was in violation of Article 25 of the Constitution by referring only members of his family to the FBR for inquiry.

The SC judge also criticised Accountability Adviser Mirza Shahzad Akbar’s role as the chairman of the Assets Recovery Unit.

Upon this, Justice Bandial urged him to refrain from passing such statements against government functionaries.

During the hearing, Justice Isa said that unlike Prime Minister Imran Khan, his family had not established offshore companies to hide their properties.

Addressing Justice Bandial, the judge complained that the premier’s matter was not referred to the FBR.

The hearing later was adjourned until Monday. One member of the bench, Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik, is retiring on April 30.

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2294958/ex-cj-khosa-betrayed-me-justice-isa
 
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday denied the “baseless” claims made recently by a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) chief that he was instructed by the premier and two of his aides to start a probe against Supreme Court's Justice Qazi Faez Isa.

“This is a baseless allegation. I never told him [ex-FIA director general Bashir Memon] to file a case or launch an inquiry against Justice Isa,” the premier told a group of TV hosts in Islamabad.

“I only told him to investigate the iqama case against PML-N leader Khawaja Asif," he added.

The decision to probe into the case against the PML-N leader was made during a federal cabinet meeting, PM Imran maintained.

He added that he had instructed Memon to investigate whether or not Asif was in possession of a UAE resident permit and withdrawing salary from foreign sources.

Talking to the host of a private news channel on April 27, the ex-FIA chief whipped up a political storm by claiming that the premier as well as Law Minister Dr Farogh Naseem and Adviser to the PM on Accountability Mirza Shahzad Akbar had asked him to start an investigation against the SC judge – a request that he squarely rejected.

Both the premier's aides have already refuted Memon's allegations. In fact, Akbar has even served a legal notice to Memon for “his lies and slanderous accusations”.

PM Imran further said Memon only briefed him on the progress of a joint investigation team's probe into the affairs of the Omni Group.

“It wasn’t even his [Memon's] job to file the reference,” he added.

The premier also denied having instructed Memon to file a terrorism case against PML-N's Maryam Nawaz for sharing a picture of his wife on social media.

He added that he had neither directed the former FIA DG to file cases against the PML-N and the PPP.

The premier further said he had recently assured a group of PTI lawmakers that no injustice would be meted out to estranged party leader Jahangir Tareen.

In the interview, Memon claimed that he was called to the PM's Office for a meeting where the premier told him that he was "a very good officer" who had been registering “good cases” in the past and that he should “take courage” and register a good case this time as well.

“At that time, I was not aware of the nature of the case and whom I was supposed to proceed against,” he added.
Memon claimed that it was at Akbar's office that it was revealed to him that he is to proceed against Justice Isa.

The FIA former chief also claimed that he later visited Dr Naseem's office as well. "He [Naseem] also told me that a case should be filed against Justice Isa and asked me to play a role," he added.

Memon said he tried to convince them that what he was being asked to do was not possible as Justice Isa was a Supreme Court judge. The former FIA officer alleged that Dr Farogh wanted to proceed against Justice Isa on the grounds of money laundering.

"They said it was my mandate. My opinion was that the SJC [Supreme Judicial Council] could do this, or it could ask us to proceed, but the FIA could not do this at the government's request," he added.

Dr Naseem and Akbar also denied Memon’s claims.

“I completely refute [the] baseless allegations levelled by Bashir Memon,” Dr Naseem said in a series of posts on Twitter. “I have never discussed any issue regarding Justice Qazi Faez Isa with Bashir Memon.

The minister said Akbar, Memon and Azam Khan, the PM’s secretary, never came to his office together. He claimed that Azam Khan had only come to his office only once to discuss legal reforms.

“Prime Minister Imran Khan, Azam Khan or Shahzad Akbar have never ever stated to me that they have discussed anything with Bashir Memon about Justice Isa,” the law minister said.

The PM’s aide on accountability was also quick in responding to the interview.

“Just seen absolute rubbish uttered by Bashir Memon... He was never called for any meeting with the PM or myself on the QFI [Qazi Faez Isa] issue, and there was no meeting with the law minister and him as he claims. Similarly he was never told to start any case against any specific individual,” Akbar said.

He said the only case that the federal cabinet had referred to the FIA was that of sedition.

Akbar later also posted the copy of the legal notice of Rs50, 00,00,000 that he has served on the FIA former DG “for his lies and slanderous accusations with mala fide and without any evidence”.

“I firmly believe in the rule of law and he [Memon] shall be answerable before a court of law for his slander,” he added.

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2297540/pm-imran-breaks-silence-over-explosive-claims
 
It's shocking how so many SC, HC judges, bureaucrats in the govt offices are still taking orders from the PML-N and PPP.

Pakistan must be the only country in the world which has a sitting federal government but the country is being ruled by the opposition parties
 
The ISA decision to stop the SJC even asking for an answer shows that the Judiciary is fully in the hands of the mafia. Its time the charade was stopped and all these crooks were arrested. You cannot have a mafia run SC.
 
Hoping to see justice isa become Chief justice and than take his revenge against imran.

If there is one person who should be taking revenge, its this guy. He has earned it.

He and his wife slapped the money trails to the faces of the govr.

If justice isa takes his revenge i will fully support this guy
 
ISLAMABAD:
Former premier Imran Khan has admitted that the filing of a presidential reference for the removal of Supreme Court’s Justice Qazi Faez Isa was a mistake.

The former prime minister conceded his “mistake” during a meeting with the Insaf Lawyers Forum (ILF) members on Tuesday.

The purpose of the meeting was to activate the party’s legal wing in the present scenario wherein the PTI’s social media activists were being harassed by the law enforcement agencies.

Several participants of the meeting have confirmed to The Express Tribune that the ex-PM admitted that the filing of a presidential reference against Justice Isa was a mistake as the then relevant officials had misguided his government about the facts of the case.

Imran was not interested in pursuing the reference against the SC judge for the last couple of years. It has been learnt that former attorney general for Pakistan Khalid Jawed Khan had convinced him that Justice Isa was an honest judge and he was misled in this case.

Read More: Curative review: CJ’s role ‘crucial’ in Justice Isa case

A senior PTI lawyer said that Imran believed that one section within the superior judiciary was annoyed with the party because of the filing of the reference against Justice Isa. “Even though the architect of that reference was someone else,” the lawyer added.

However, senior lawyers say that Imran, being the chief executive of the country, could not be absolved as the reference was filed on his instructions.

Separately, PTI Secretary Asad Umar has announced that a petition would be filed in the Islamabad High Court challenging the harassment of the party’s social media activists on Thursday |(today).

PTI Islamabad District President Ali Nawaz Awan will file the petition through Advocate Chaudhry Faisal Hussain.

The draft of the petition, available with The Express Tribune, read: “The IHC is requested to immediately stop the unlawful and illegal raids and harassment of the party workers.”

The petition prayed the IHC to act strictly within the four corners of the Constitution and law and to refrain from violating and disrespecting the privacy, honour of the families and households of the political workers and preserve the sanctity thereof.

“The actions of the respondent Federal Investigation Agency and the police may very graciously be held illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional as well as in violation of the court’s directions passed pursuant to the judgement dated 03.11.2020 in W.P 2939/2020, titled Rana Muhammad Ashraf Versus Federation of Pakistan.”.

The petition stated that with the change of regime, the party had been targeted by the respondents on behest of their political opponents. Therefore, an onslaught has been unleashed upon the party activists, especially the social media users who openly support PTI. This alarming fact of harassment and illegal raids and has been brought to the notice of the party leadership by different party activists including the users of Twitter and other social media platforms including Facebook etc.

“It is also on the record that many social media activists belonging to Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf including (but not limited to) Dr Arsalan Khalid, Azhar Mashwani, Muhammad Waqas, Salar Sultanzai, Wasif Kazmi and many others along with their families have been harassed on behest of the ruling party and threatened by the officials of the respondent authorities for dire consequences to aid and help to satisfy the political vendetta against the workers of Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf, especially those who are associated with the profession of journalism and using social media platforms to provide general public with correct and unfeigned facts of the state affairs. The proof of this harassment, in the form of the messages of the victims on the social media, has been placed on record."

The petition further read that the respondents had avoided revealing the details about the alleged criminal offences and also intently concealing the details of law under which the houses of the party activists had been raided and their families subjected to humiliation and unlawful harassment.

It also stated that the respondents were impeding the fundamental right of freedom of expression and free speech to appease their new owners.

“The respondents have miserably failed to abide by their legal and constitutional duties. The respondents have involved in the impunity for crimes against its citizens, particularly those who are engaged in the profession of journalism, using social media as platform to keep masses informed regarding the political situation in the country.”

The plea read that the officials of the FIA Cyber Crime Wing and police officials fearlessly violated the directions and orders of this court and willfully disobeyed its mandatory commands.

“Hence, [they] are liable to be proceeded against under the contempt of court and all other enabling laws that are enforceable for the time being in Pakistan."

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2352504/reference-against-isa-was-a-mistake-imran
 
[MENTION=1269]Bewal Express[/MENTION]

What do you have to say about this now? Another day, another humiliation for Imran.
 
Major said:
Hoping to see justice isa become Chief justice and than take his revenge against imran.

If there is one person who should be taking revenge, its this guy. He has earned it.

He and his wife slapped the money trails to the faces of the govr.

If justice isa takes his revenge i will fully support this guy
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He will become the CJ InshAllah and that will be end of the fake messiah’s political career.
 
Major said:
Hoping to see justice isa become Chief justice and than take his revenge against imran.

If there is one person who should be taking revenge, its this guy. He has earned it.

He and his wife slapped the money trails to the faces of the govr.

If justice isa takes his revenge i will fully support this guy
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Isa is a honest person, don’t think he will do anything that is outside the law. Isa is a problem for establishment, not for IK. He will make sure the missing person cases are resolved and those responsible will be accountable. He will take action against extra judicial killings.
 
Mamoon said:
[MENTION=1269]Bewal Express[/MENTION]

What do you have to say about this now? Another day, another humiliation for Imran.
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IK is wrong on this-Isa hasnt provided the money trail. Why cant he provide the money trail? do you know why?
 
shah_1 said:
Isa is a honest person, don’t think he will do anything that is outside the law. Isa is a problem for establishment, not for IK. He will make sure the missing person cases are resolved and those responsible will be accountable. He will take action against extra judicial killings.
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Do you know where the money came from? How did he buy the properties? Where is his suo motto notice on the killing of journalists in Sindh?
 
Mamoon said:
He will become the CJ InshAllah and that will be end of the fake messiah’s political career.
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You wish, whats he going to do. Stop the millions coming on the streets? We saw you guys that needed biryani at mid day to come out yesterday.lol
 
[MENTION=1269]Bewal Express[/MENTION]

So Imran Khan’s former law minister is claiming that he did not encourage him to file a reference against Isa.

In other words, he is calling him a liar. What happened, did the law minister become a traitor as well?
 
A war of words has ensued between Justice Qazi Faez Isa and former law minister Dr Farogh Naseem after the judge rubbished an allegation that he had deferred the latter’s application for restoration of his lawyer’s licence after his resignation from the federal cabinet.

In a petition moved before the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC), Dr Naseem said he had moved an application to the PBC’s enrolment committee for restoration of his licence, but the body’s chairman, Justice Isa, “deliberately deferred a decision on the matter”.

However, a statement issued by Farrukh Malik, secretary to Justice Isa, and addressed to PBC chairman Hafeezur Rehman Chaudhry and Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar, rejected the allegation and clarified that Dr Naseem’s application was first seen by Justice Isa only on Monday (April 25).

The statement rubbished an allegation that two committee members, Qalbe Hassan and Azam Nazeer Tarar, tried their best to persuade the chairman into antedating the matter, but “Justice Isa did not budge an inch”.

Mr Malik said Justice Isa neither had held any meeting with members of the enrolment committee nor had he spoken to them about Dr Naseem.

He rejected an allegation levelled by the former law minister that Justice Isa was biased against the petitioner (Dr Naseem) and that he was inordinately delaying the matter.

The statement explained that the application was received at the PBC vice chairman’s office on April 7 and neither the chairman nor the enrolment committee had gone through it.

Published in Dawn, April 27th, 2022
 
Govt to withdraw review petition against Justice Qazi Faez Isa

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Wed**nesday decided to withdraw the curat*ive review petitions filed against Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court, observing that the action was taken by the previous go**vernment through “unfair use of authority”.

The cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, also decided that the record in this respect should be made public after its scrutiny. For this purpose, an inquiry committee consisting of representatives of all allied political parties, including Minister for Kashmir Affairs Qamar Zaman Kaira, Minister for National Food Security Tariq Bashir Cheema and Minister for Education Rana Tanveer was constituted.

The inquiry committee, after assessment of the review petitions filed against Justice Isa, would present a report to the cabinet.

The federal cabinet also approved the Inter-Government Commercial Transaction Act-2022, sent by the Ministry of Law and Justice, and recommended it be presented before the relevant parliamentary committee. The cabinet was earlier apprised that the proposed law would help boost the confidence of foreign investors and increase foreign investment in the country. The law wou*ld also be helpful in the government-to-government (G2G) development agreements.

Govt names new FIA DG, national coordinator for counter-terrorism

It also reviewed the losses caused by torrential rains in Sindh and Balochistan provinces. The PM appreciated the efforts of Sindh chief minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, who was personally visiting the rain-hit areas to review relief activities during the rains in the province, particularly in Karachi and Hyderabad.

The cabinet also approved the posting of Mohammad Tahir Rai, an officer of the Police Service of Pakistan and former director general of Federal Investigating Agency, as National Coordinator on Counterter-rorism. It also approved the posting of Mohsin Butt, a grade 22 officer of the Police Service of Pakistan, as FIA DG.

On the recommendation of the Ministry of National Health Services and Regulations, the cabinet approved to enhance the maximum retail prices of the 15 types of imported cardiac stents in proportion with the exchange rate.

The federal cabinet also endorsed the Economic Coordination Committee decisions, taken in its July 25 meeting, including approval of the supplementary grant for the ministry of information and broadcasting for fiscal year 2022-23 for holding 75th Independence Day ceremonies, ap**p*roval of the compensation package for the victims of terrorist attack at Confucius Insti*tute, Karachi University, and approval of pro**viding electricity and RLNG to export sector at new rates from August 1.

DAWN
 
So this is what we know from this affair.

The establishment fell out with Qazi Isa
The establishment used their front man in the govt from MQM and IK didnt object
Isa had property that he didn't declare and then didn't declare how he got his money to the UK. Mostly likely a pay off for killing the Hudbiya Case
Isa still hasn't provided the money trail and has used the same tactics as NS of diversion and technicalities
Isa and wife are both liars
Conclusion
The establishment knew he was dodgy, they tolerated him as long as he didn't rock the boat, when he did, they used his crookedness against him. The moral of the story, a bankrupt elite blackmailing each other.
 
Judicial Commission of Pakistan rejects by 5-4 the five nominees put forward by CJP Umar Ata Bandial for elevation to the Supreme Court - all nine members participated in the meeting including Attorney General Ashtar Ausaf Ali and Justice Qazi Faez Isa who both attended online
 
MenInG said:
Judicial Commission of Pakistan rejects by 5-4 the five nominees put forward by CJP Umar Ata Bandial for elevation to the Supreme Court - all nine members participated in the meeting including Attorney General Ashtar Ausaf Ali and Justice Qazi Faez Isa who both attended online
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So the 5 want mafia judges on the SC. Brilliant
 
ISLAMABAD: Former human rights Minister Shireen Mazari claimed on Saturday former prime minister Imran Khan had been misguided on the reference against Justice Qazi Faez Isa.

In an interview to a news channel, she again blamed the-then law minister Farogh Naseem for filing the reference against Justice Qazi Faez Isa. She said it was Farogh Naseem who had damaged the PTI government the most. She said it was also a big mistake to accept the nomination of the chief election commissioner.

“On the enforced disappearance bill, Farogh Naseem lodged a complaint against me at the Aabpara and I had to appear before them,” she alleged.

TheNews
 
Isa Still needs to account for his property. His wife lied under oath and he is part of a SC that is corrupt to the core. Our our current CJP has been asleep while a fascist regime is beating up journalists and closing down TV channels, arresting babies and mothers, beating up political workers and fake cases have been registered and the whole place has become a banana Republic
 
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial has included Senior Puisne Judge Justice Qazi Faez Isa in his bench for the first time to hear the cases in the coming week from September 5 to 9.

Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah is also part of bench No 1.

In the backdrop of a perception regarding a rift among Supreme Court judges including Justice Isa, sitting of two senior most judges in same bench is being appreciated by the legal fraternity.

Talking to The Express Tribune, former Sindh High Court Bar Association president Salahuddin Ahmed termed it an “excellent development” which would improve the public perception and prestige of the apex court.

"One hopes that previously evident rifts in the judiciary can be healed and repaired. There is a unified focus to collectively resolve various issues with the justice delivery system. Both the honourable chief justice and honourable senior puisne judge have a crucial role to play in this process," he said.

Another senior lawyer said that politics is the art of conversation. "In Pakistan, the real problem is the end of conversations. Politicians are not talking to each other. The generals and bureaucrats seldom do. Judges too are no longer in dialogue."

The lawyer saw the next week apex court’s roster as “glad tidings”. “It suggests a resumption of conversation between senior judges. The nation and the state will benefit from it,” he added.

Former additional attorney general Tariq Mahmood Khokhar noted that the reconstituted apex court benches herald the beginning of the end of internecine strife.

"[This is] more dissent and diversity and a step back from the precipice. The chief justice has risen above much discord and acrimony. I am sure others will reciprocate," Khokhar said.

It has been witnessed that Justice Isa case proceedings had badly affected the working of the apex court. Judges spoke with each other through judicial orders and even harsh words were exchanged between Justice Maqbool Baqar and Justice Sajjad Ali Shah during the hearing of Justice Isa case.

Several lawyers accused former chief justice Gulzar Ahmed of not playing a mediatory role to end rift among the Supreme Court judges. However, senior lawyers wondered why the incumbent CJP was including Justice Isa in a bench which was hearing important constitutional and sensitive matters.

Justice Isa had written a letter to the CJP raising questions on the composition of the bench to hear presidential reference regarding scope and interpretation of Article 63A of constitution.

When CJP Bandial summoned a meeting of Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) on July 28 to consider the elevation of five nominees to the top court, Justice Isa protested, saying he was abroad when the commission’s meeting was called.

The JCP meeting had exposed the internal working of the superior judiciary and the CJP’s nominees were not approved by a majority of the commission’s members.

Following the meeting, senior lawyers urged CJP Bandial to initiate dialogue process with the senior judges for the appointment of top court judges. Currently, five posts of the Supreme Court judges are lying vacant.

Sources revealed to The Express Tribune that the CJP held meeting with JCP members on Wednesday. The lawyers stressed the need for a permanent resolution of issues regarding composition of benches, fixation of cases and appointment of superior court judges. The CJP discretionary powers are vital in these matters.

Majority of the JCP members want that criteria should be evolved for the appointment of superior court judges.

It is to be noted that no full court meeting has been held for the last two years. It is expected that a full court would meet at the start of new judicial year on September 12.

Express Tribune
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">On my direction, the government has decided to withdraw the Curative Review Petition against senior most Judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Qazi Faez Isa. The Curative Review was based on ill-will & meant to harass & intimidate the honourable Judge at the behest of Imran Niazi.</p>— Shehbaz Sharif (@CMShehbaz) <a href="https://twitter.com/CMShehbaz/status/1641359987858366465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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