IHC dismisses petition against appointment of Justice Saeed as head of Broadsheet probe committee
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Retired Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed. Photo courtesy Supreme Court website
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday rejected a petition filed against the appointment of retired Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed as the chairman of the Broadsheet Commission.
IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah heard the petition against the appointment filed by citizen Saleemullah Khan.
The petitioner s counsel objected to the hearing by the chief justice and requested for a change of bench, to which Justice Minallah said, Yes, you have objected to every bench.
After listening to arguments against the bench, the verdict was reserved and later pronounced.
The issues surrounding the revelations that have come forward in the case of Broadsheet and the people who hired it to recover assets, are becoming more and more complex. In the first place, as the.
ISLAMABAD: The opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan Peoples Party have rejected the government’s appointment of Sheikh Azmat Saeed, a retired Supreme Court judge, to head the.
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January 23, 2021
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Friday rejected the formation of a government’s inquiry committee to probe the Broadsheet saga and appointment of Justice (R) Azmat Saeed as its head.
Talking to the media outside Parliament, PPP Secretary-General Syed Nayyer Hussain Bokhari said the committee was an eye wash to divert the people’s attention from real issues and get desired results. An independent inquiry under Prime Minister Imran Khan is not possible. The investigation is only being conducted to divert the public attention from the issue while the purpose of appointing Justice (R) Azmat Saeed is to blame the opposition and former leaders for it,” he added.