ISLAMABAD:
A letter found on Thursday in the parking lot of the Supreme Court threatened to assassinate President Asif Ali Zardari and Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry at noon on “either Friday” (today) “or Saturday”.
The Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS), along with law-enforcement agencies, swung into action after the chief justice was informed about the threatening note, which alleged that a bomb had been planted in the Supreme Court building.
The bomb disposal squad had the apex court building evacuated, and after a thorough search of the premises, declared it a ‘safe zone’.
According to reports, the letter was written by two men who called themselves Aman Khan and Samandar Khan.
Following the threat, security around the court premises was beefed up while investigations into the matter are under way.
Senior lawyers, who were there at the Supreme Court when the incident occurred, termed the threat a stark reminder of the need for strict security arrangements, particularly since, they said, the threat had come in the backdrop of the court’s suo motu notice of Karachi violence.
A five-member bench of the Supreme Court, headed by the chief justice will start hearing the suo motu case on Friday (today).
Published in The Express Tribune, August 26th, 2011.
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Well there is no doubt that the decisions of the Supreme Court are explosive!
It was hoax call at Lahore FIA office and now it is Supreme court building where hoax call was engineered. The objective is crystal clear. They don't want corruption cases to proceed. Next there will be a hoax call at Judges colony to prevent the Chief Justice to leave for office. The entire engineering is being is aimed to prevent the fall of Government and to repay the debt owed by a magician minister who was appointed by the "family" as Labour Inspector in Grade 11 in Labour Department before coming to FIA. The cost to the nation is in accommodating and saving the culprits is colossal to the country. May GOD help the helpless nation.
lets see.