Concluding with a speech by an absconder [Nawaz Sharif] nothing but contempt of judges and judiciary says the minister
\n ISLAMABAD:
\nMinister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Sunday advised the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) to remain \u2018neutral\u2019 as lawyers will only be able to contribute then.
\nThe minister made the remarks through his official Twitter handle, following the third Asma Jahangir Conference held on Saturday, which was addressed by the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) and other senior judges.
\nFawad said that the conference \u201cconcluding with speech by an absconder [former premier Nawaz Sharif was] nothing but a contempt of judges and judiciary.\u201d
\nThe minister mentioned that he was also invited to give a speech at the conference but after learning that an \u201caccused fugitive\u201d was concluding the speeches, he turned down the invitation.
\n\u201cObviously, this is tantamount to mocking the country and the constitution,\u201d the minister wrote on Twitter.
\nFawad further asked to \u201cget the list of major cases of Iftikhar Chaudhry\u2019s court out. Hamid Khan, along with two or three others, are the lawyer in every case.\u201d He claimed that these lawyers made large sums of money under the name of judicial freedom.
\nThe minister also accused Nawaz Sharif of sending bags full of cash to the former chief justice of the Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif during the Lawyer\u2019s Movement.
\nEarlier, during the conference held in Lahore, CJP Gulzar Ahmed rubbished the notion of any \u201cinstitutional pressure\u201d on the judiciary, saying that courts were functioning independently.
\nJustice Gulzar maintained that the impression that the courts were not independent and operating under pressure of the institutions was incorrect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Concluding with a speech by an absconder [Nawaz Sharif] nothing but contempt of judges and judiciary says the minister ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Sunday advised the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) to remain \u2018neutral\u2019 as lawyers will only be able to contribute then. The minister made the remarks through his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[356,563,562],"class_list":{"0":"post-228672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news","8":"tag-fawad-chaudhary","9":"tag-neutral","10":"tag-scba"},"yoast_head":"\n