WORLD NEWS | Pakistan’s Chief Justice to accept request to withdraw treatment review against Judge Qazi Faz Isa

Islamabad [Pakistan]April 9 (ANI): Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial will deal with the federal government’s request on April 10 to withdraw the “therapeutic review petition” filed by the Pakistan Justice Instigation (PTI) government, Dawn reported , against Judge Qazi Faez Isa.

The development came after Pakistani Prime Minister Sheikh Baz Sharif ordered the relevant authorities not to file a review petition against Judge Kazifa Ezi Isa. He directed the authorities to withdraw the petition to the Supreme Court.

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Shehbaz Sharif stressed via his official Twitter handle on March 30 that the therapeutic review petition against Judge Qazi Faez Isa was based on “bad faith” and was intended to harass the judge.

He tweeted: “On my direction, the government has decided to withdraw the therapeutic review petition against Supreme Court Justice Qazi Fez Isa. The therapeutic review was based in bad faith and the purpose is to harass and intimidate the Honorable Judge at the request of Imran Niazi.”

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In a statement issued by Pakistan’s Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Shehbaz Sharif said Judge Isa and his family were “harassed” in the name of reference, Dawn newspaper reported. and defamation”. He said the reference was an evil plot to split the independence of the judiciary. He recalled that his party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and coalition parties condemned the move, even though they were in the opposition.

The former PTI government has petitioned the Supreme Court that its majority judgment of 26 April 2021 in the review case against Judge Qazi Faez Isa should not be set aside as “clearly unjust, contrary to the public interest and public interest, this judicial accountability”, Dawn reported.

On April 26, 2021, the Supreme Court, by a 6-4 majority, overturned the June 19, 2022 majority decision. The court ordered the tax authority to investigate Isa on three foreign properties in the name of the judge’s wife and children, Dawn reported.

According to news reports, the April 26 judgment shuts down judicial accountability and Judge Issa’s accountability for the allegations and information on the record, the therapeutic review said.

According to the appeal, the majority judgment watered down the standard of judicial accountability and provided a cover for higher court judges to hide behind the principle of judicial independence only to avoid judicial accountability. (Arnie)

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