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ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday approached the law ministry to remove accountability court judge Arshad Malik from his position amid the leaked video controversy, Express News reported.
According to official sources, the request was conveyed to Law Minister Farogh Naseem in a letter sent by IHC Registrar Irshad Kiyani on the orders of acting IHC Chief Justice Amir Farooq.
The development came after Malik met Justice Farooq earlier on Friday, their third meeting this week.
The accountability court judge also submitted a letter to the IHC registrar in which he again rejected the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) claims of coercion as “baseless”.
He said the PML-N had also offered him bribes ahead of the Al-Azizia verdict against the three-time former premier.
Along with the letter, Judge Malik also submitted an affidavit and a copy of the initial press release he had issued this past Sunday.
In a major development, Justice Farooq has told the IHC registrar to make all three documents a part of Nawaz’s pending appeals against the Al-Azizia and Flagship references.
Judge Malik was part of the controversial video clip presented by the PML-N leadership alleging that the accountability judge confessed before a long-time party supporter Nasir Butt about being threatened to convict former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in the Al-Azizia reference verdict.
The first meeting between the two senior judges was held on Monday, after which Justice Farooq met Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa.
Consultation among judges over the alleged video of accountability court judge continued on Thursday during the second meeting between Malik and acting IHC chief justice.
Law Minister Dr Farogh Naseem — while talking to the media on Thursday — threw the ball in judiciary’s court, saying that the high court could look into the matter under the law.
In a press release, issued a day after the PML-N news briefing, judge Malik stated that his comments in the video were pieced together, presented out of context and that he had never faced intimidation to rule against former PM Nawaz.
On July 11, the Supreme Court was moved to launch an inquiry into the video scandal that had been broken during a PML-N-led news conference the previous week.
A constitutional petition, submitted by Ishtiaq Ahmed Mirza through his lawyer Chaudhry Munir Sadiq at the top court, named the federal government, PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif, PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz, senior PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Nasir Butt and Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) as respondents.
The petition urged the court to initiate contempt of court proceedings against all the entities involved in the scandal.
Source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/201162...ge-malik-meets-acting-ihc-cj-third-time-week/
According to official sources, the request was conveyed to Law Minister Farogh Naseem in a letter sent by IHC Registrar Irshad Kiyani on the orders of acting IHC Chief Justice Amir Farooq.
The development came after Malik met Justice Farooq earlier on Friday, their third meeting this week.
The accountability court judge also submitted a letter to the IHC registrar in which he again rejected the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) claims of coercion as “baseless”.
He said the PML-N had also offered him bribes ahead of the Al-Azizia verdict against the three-time former premier.
Along with the letter, Judge Malik also submitted an affidavit and a copy of the initial press release he had issued this past Sunday.
In a major development, Justice Farooq has told the IHC registrar to make all three documents a part of Nawaz’s pending appeals against the Al-Azizia and Flagship references.
Judge Malik was part of the controversial video clip presented by the PML-N leadership alleging that the accountability judge confessed before a long-time party supporter Nasir Butt about being threatened to convict former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in the Al-Azizia reference verdict.
The first meeting between the two senior judges was held on Monday, after which Justice Farooq met Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa.
Consultation among judges over the alleged video of accountability court judge continued on Thursday during the second meeting between Malik and acting IHC chief justice.
Law Minister Dr Farogh Naseem — while talking to the media on Thursday — threw the ball in judiciary’s court, saying that the high court could look into the matter under the law.
In a press release, issued a day after the PML-N news briefing, judge Malik stated that his comments in the video were pieced together, presented out of context and that he had never faced intimidation to rule against former PM Nawaz.
On July 11, the Supreme Court was moved to launch an inquiry into the video scandal that had been broken during a PML-N-led news conference the previous week.
A constitutional petition, submitted by Ishtiaq Ahmed Mirza through his lawyer Chaudhry Munir Sadiq at the top court, named the federal government, PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif, PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz, senior PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Nasir Butt and Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) as respondents.
The petition urged the court to initiate contempt of court proceedings against all the entities involved in the scandal.
Source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/201162...ge-malik-meets-acting-ihc-cj-third-time-week/