APNS-CPNE team barred from meeting suspended CJ
ISLAMABAD: A delegation comprising media tycoons and newspapers editors Monday was refused permission to visit the “non-functional” Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.
The office bearers of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) were stopped near the Ministers’ Enclave where the police had barricaded the road leading to the Judges Colony. Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, APNS President and other office bearers wanted to meet the ‘non-functional’ Chief Justice of Pakistan in the wake of the current crisis.
Magistrate Syed Hussain Bihadar, who intercepted the delegates, claimed the CJ had not been ‘arrested’ and that the police guards had been deployed for his security. He added ‘non-functional’ CJ was taking rest in his house.
He also asked for a list of the delegates that would be sent to Iftikhar Chaudhry for approval. “We are neither his relatives nor friends. We are representing the fourth pillar of the state,” Hameed Haroon, a senior office bearer of the APNS told the magistrate when he showed reluctance to let them go anywhere near the residence of Iftikhar Chaudhry.
Talking to journalists Haroon said the APNS executive committee had decided to see the ‘non-functional’ CJ. “But we have been told that the Chief Justice did not want to meet us and that he was taking rest.” Haroon said they had decided to go back instead of breaking the law. Arif Nizami, Imtinan Shahid, Mujeeb-ur-Rehman Shami, Qazi Asad Abid, Anwar Farooqi, Mumtaz Tahir, Mehtab Khan, Arshad Zuberi, Najam-ud-Din Sheikh, Jamil Athar, Altaf Qureshi, Pir Sufaid Shah and other members of APNS/CPNE were also present on the occasion.
Source: The News
Date:3/13/2007
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