Any bid to shatter people’s trust in judiciary can’t be tolerated: IHC

ISLAMABAD, December 13: Chief Justice Islamabad High Court Athar Minallah has said that the court will not tolerate any bid to thwart the provision of justice or shatter people’s trust in judiciary saying if something conjures up after three years, it must have some grounds.
He uttered these remarks while hearing a contempt case against former top judge of Gilgit-Baltistan Supreme Appellate Court Rana Shamim and three others including journalist Ansar Abbasi in Islamabad on Monday.
The case pertains to an affidavit written by Mr Shamim and published in a newspaper accusing former chief justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar of colluding to deny bails to PML-N top leaders before 2018 general elections.
Chief Justice Minallah said according to Mr Shamim, the affidavit was leaked by the notary public and if this court sent Mr Shamim’s reply to the regulator in England, then it would create a serious problem for the notary public over there.
The high court in its previous hearing asked the former GB judge to submit his original affidavit which he claimed was in London and submit his reply.
When Mr Shamim appeared before the court, it asked him and other involved parties to submit their affidavit/declarations.
After this, Attorney General of Pakistan Khalid Jawed Khan read out the miscellaneous application of Mr Shamim. According to his application, the former GB judge said that his grandson had dispatched his original affidavit through courier service on Dec 9 and it would take three days to reach Pakistan. – TLTP