Quoted by Dawn News
On Thursday, Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Shahid Karim said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif should take responsibility for any insubordination by intelligence agencies under him.
This statement was made in a written order for a case involving alleged threats and harassment faced by a judge from a Sargodha anti-terrorism court (ATC) by intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
The case started when Justice Malik Shahzad Ahmad Khan, the then-chief Justice of the High Court, summoned Punjab Inspector General (IGC) Usman Anwar and other officials on June 13 following the complaint.
The complaint was based on a special report which was received by the LHC registrar’s office on June 7 from District & Sessions Judge (DSJ) Muhammad Abbas.
where he stated that on May 25, a message was conveyed to him to meet ISI – Inter-Service Intelligence.
But he refused to meet them and since then he has been encountering various incidents. CJ Ahmad had reserved his verdict in the matter on June 13. The verdict was announced in a June 20 hearing.
In the hearing of June 27, Justice Karim converted the suo moto notice into a writ petition.
The counsel for the Federal Government said “If we find out who tried to meet the judge, we are ready to investigate him,”
“The court will issue a directive that the prime minister of Pakistan (Shehbaz Sharif) take responsibility with regards to ISI and IB,” Justice Karim said. “If anything happens after that, we will directly ask the prime minister.”
The prime minister has to take responsibility, ISI and IB are subordinate to the prime minister, Justice Karim said.
“If any such phone call comes, it should be recorded,” he added.