I do not care about any contempt of court notice: Khursheed Shah

Khursheed Shah was served contempt notice for being part of press conference on Dec 1 where Babar Awan criticised SC.


Express January 04, 2012

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Religious Affairs, Khursheed Shah joined the long line of Parliamentarians to voice their opinions over the Supreme Court’s decision to hear the memogate case, saying the court was listening to a case based on a fragment of paper and a lie, even as that very court served him a notice.

Express News on Wednesday reported that the Minister's tirade did not end there, as he went on to say that he did not care whether he was in contempt of court or not. An animated Shah repeated this phrase a couple of times.

He added that the Pakistan Peoples Party had braved bullets to uphold the freedom of judiciary. Where was the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) then, he asked.

Earlier, the Supreme Court had issued contempt of court notices to Babar Awan for his outburst against the premiere judicial body of Pakistan in early December.

On December 1, the Supreme Court had admitted petitions pertaining to the memo scandal for hearing. Khursheed Shah, Qamar Zaman Kaira, Firdous Ashiq Awan and Farooq Awan sat alongside Babar Awan during a press conference when the former Law minister criticised the SC for admitting the petition. The SC taking note of this, issued contempt notices to those who were present  at the present at the conference.

(Read: PPP leaders reject Supreme Court’s right to form commission)

COMMENTS (11)

Saleem | 12 years ago | Reply

Courts and laws are for commoner only. Neither PPP nor its cronies ever cared about them. No wonder they were never supportive of restoring courts as they knew that independent courts will not let their action go unchecked. As their rein is close to an end they want to be called judicial martyred so that they can get sympathy vote from people in next election. Voting for them and their allies will be like giving a new life to curse that PPP and its allies has given to the country in last four years.

Sindhvoice | 12 years ago | Reply

Justice should be IMPARTIAL, FAIR and UNBIASED. Otherwise A partial justice and biased judgments create an impression of politicized courts, I am afraid time is about to come when unanimous respect for Judiciary from across the Pakistan may fade way, like we used to hear terms Dogar courts and Kangro courts, new term may shape soon.

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