Threats to Justice Isa
\nISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan Wednesday indicted prayer leader Maulvi Iftikhar-ud-Din Mirza in contempt of court charges for using derogatory, contemptuous and scandalous language against the judiciary in a video that went viral last month, giving him a week to respond to the charges.
\nA hearing was held by a bench at the Supreme Court presided over by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed during which Mirza unconditionally apologised to the court, saying that he was ashamed of his remarks. \u201cI ask forgiveness from you as a Muslim,\u201d he said. \u201cI apologise for my statements in the video.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mirza said that he had no knowledge of the editing and uploading of the video. The chief justice, in return, expressed anger at the derogatory language used in the video. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not a case of forgiveness. You cannot mock the judiciary, in this way, Pakistan\u2019s entire system will fail,\u201d he remarked. \u201cYou were using such [derogatory] language from the Minbar of a mosque, the kind that even an illiterate person wouldn\u2019t use,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n
The bench said that it was not satisfied with the written responses submitted by Mirza in previous hearings of the case either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Threats to Justice Isa ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan Wednesday indicted prayer leader Maulvi Iftikhar-ud-Din Mirza in contempt of court charges for using derogatory, contemptuous and scandalous language against the judiciary in a video that went viral last month, giving him a week to respond to the charges. A hearing was held by a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-132715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n