The Former judge of the Islamabad High Court, Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui, has named several army generals, including some of the former judges, as parties in the case against his removal.
On behalf of the former judge, Senior Counsel Hamid Khan moved an amended application before the SC to name as respondents in his petition former army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa, former Director General of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Faiz Hamid, three retired brigadiers, Irfan Ramay, Faisal Marwat and Tahir Wafai, including former chief justice of the IHC, Anwar Khan Kasi, and former registrar of SC, Arbab Muhammad Arif.
While referring to the Supreme Court proceedings, the application said that, “During the course of proceedings on December 14, it has been noted out that the allegations made in the speech and the replies by Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui implicate, directly or indirectly, certain former officers of the Pakistan Army and the ISI and it is just and proper that they be personally impleaded in the instant petition so as to allow them a chance of hearing regarding the said allegations before any order that may be passed that may directly or indirectly affect them.”
It is to be hereby added that, the amended application were filed on behalf of Siddiqui and senior counsel Salahuddin Ahmed, representing the Islamabad High Court Bar Association and the Karachi Bar Association.
These applications will now be presented before a five-judge Supreme Court bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa, on Friday to issue the notices to the freshly made respondents.
The new list of respondents was submitted to the Supreme Court after the CJP asked the counsel to make these individuals parties to the case. The CJP said, the court will not hear a single allegation against them. The CJP observed that it was wrong to malign institutions since no institution was bad.
He stressed that, “Individuals running such establishments should be blamed instead.”
