Punjab

Presidential pardon for Rehman Malik: Court reserves verdict on petition

LHC reserves verdict on writ petition challenging presidential pardon to Malik against conviction of NAB references.

Express April 29, 2011

LAHORE:

A full bench of the Lahore High Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on a writ petition challenging the presidential pardon to Interior Minister Rehman Malik against his conviction in two references of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).

The bench headed by Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry reserved judgment on the petition of Imtiaz Rasheed Qureshi, media coordinator of Save Judicial Committee. The petitioner had requested the court to set aside the president’s order and to restore the sentence. He stated that Malik had not filed any mercy petition and the purported pardon was a violation of the due process concept.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 29^th, 2011.

COMMENTS (1)

Sultan Ahmed | 13 years ago | Reply Judiciary is a balance wheel of whole system, judgment has been reserved would be delivered within days. The honorable court,adopting the legal way, decide the matter,according to law. whether president may pardon an accused before the last appeal, in the supreme court. By the way, it was not a murder case and capital punishment could not be announced.

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