{"id":74392,"date":"2018-08-01T15:06:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T10:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=74392"},"modified":"2018-08-01T15:06:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T10:06:41","slug":"supreme-judicial-council-issues-show-cause-notice-to-justice-siddiqui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=74392","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Judicial Council issues show cause notice to Justice Siddiqui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s top spy agency, made last month.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The judge has been asked to submit a response by August 28.<\/p>\n<p>In his bombshell address to his junior fellows, Justice Siddiqui alleged that officers of Pakistan\u2019s premier spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), were directly involved in manipulating the judicial affairs in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t 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,\u201d the judge claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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\u2019s top spy agency, made last month. The notice was issued regarding the address of the honorable judge to the Rawalpindi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74394,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74392\/revisions\/74394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}