ISLAMABAD, August 1 (TNS): The Supreme Judicial Council has issued a show cause notice to Justice Shaukat Siddiqui of Islamabad High Court for one of his speeches with a special reference to the country’s top spy agency, made last month.
The notice was issued regarding the address of the honorable judge to the Rawalpindi Bar Association in which Siddiqui had decried the involvement of spy officers in judicial affairs.
The judge has been asked to submit a response by August 28.
In his bombshell address to his junior fellows, Justice Siddiqui alleged that officers of Pakistan’s premier spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), were directly involved in manipulating the judicial affairs in the country.
“I don’t know what will happen tomorrow but I swear on my mother and this Bar that ISI officials instruct the judges to constitute the bench of their own choice,” the judge claimed.
