Claims by senior Pakistani judges that the intelligence agencies put pressure on them in cases involving the former prime minister Imran Khan have reached the country’s supreme court, following the publication of an unprecedented letter that has created a storm in Pakistan.
The letter from the six high court judges alleged the abduction of family members, torture, installation of cameras in their bedrooms and threats from the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI).
Khan has denied all charges and claimed his treatment is politically motivated, accusing Pakistan’s powerful military chief of harbouring a “personal grudge” against him.
At the opening of the supreme court hearing on Wednesday, the chief justice Qazi Faez Isa said he had zero tolerance for challenges to the independence of the judiciary.
Syed Zulfiqar Bukhari, Khan’s adviser on international media and affairs, said that the letter written from the judges made it evident that the courts have been under duress for at least the past two years.
The former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said it was unprecedented in Pakistan’s history for senior serving judges to go public on claims of intelligence agency interference.
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Claims by senior Pakistani judges that the intelligence agencies put pressure on them in cases involving the former prime minister Imran Khan have reached the country’s supreme court, following the publication of an unprecedented letter that has created a storm in Pakistan.
The letter from the six high court judges alleged the abduction of family members, torture, installation of cameras in their bedrooms and threats from the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI).
Khan has denied all charges and claimed his treatment is politically motivated, accusing Pakistan’s powerful military chief of harbouring a “personal grudge” against him.
At the opening of the supreme court hearing on Wednesday, the chief justice Qazi Faez Isa said he had zero tolerance for challenges to the independence of the judiciary.
Syed Zulfiqar Bukhari, Khan’s adviser on international media and affairs, said that the letter written from the judges made it evident that the courts have been under duress for at least the past two years.
The former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said it was unprecedented in Pakistan’s history for senior serving judges to go public on claims of intelligence agency interference.
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