Contempt charges: Plea filed against PM’s aviation adviser

Filed against Special Adviser to the PM on Aviation Shujat Azim for accepting post in violation of court orders.

ISLAMABAD:

A petition was filed in the Supreme Court on Friday, seeking contempt of court proceedings against Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Aviation Shujat Azim for accepting the post in violation of the court orders.

Former PIA employee Mansoor Ahmed Dhillu filed the petition through his counsel Qazi Muhammad Anwar under Article 204 of the Constitution, requesting the court to summon Azim and penalise him for flouting its orders and ‘disgracing the dignity of the court’.

Azim had tendered his resignation on July 25 last year from the post of adviser amidst controversy for being court martialled and being a dual-national (Canadian and Pakistani). The petition stated that after resigning, Azim has again accepted the same position thus he violated intentionally, knowingly and wilfully the July 25 and September 25, 2013 orders of the SC.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 19^th, 2014.