Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) worker Mustafeen Kazmi has threatened the five members of a larger bench of the Supreme Court amidst the review hearing of Article 63A case.
During the hearing on Wednesday at the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Mustafeen Kazmi came to the rostrum and declared the larger five-member bench unconstitutional, threatening, “We have 500 workers outside; will see how you give a verdict against them,” Geo News has reported.
Responding to the misbehaving of PTI worker Kazmi, CJP Qazi Faez Isa directed him to sit down, but he refused. Then, Isa politely directed the police to evacuate this gentleman from the courtroom.
“What else you can do,” Kazmi responded.
Addressing PTI lawyer Barrister Ali Zafar, the Chief Justice questioned what is happening in the courtroom: “Ali Zafar Sahab aap ayyein or hamain bay izzat karain, yeh hum hargiz bardasht nahi karaingy, judges sey badtameezi ka yeh tareeqa ab aam hu gaya hai (Ali Zafar, you came here and disrespected us {judges}, we won’t tolerate it, and now it has become the norm to misbehaved with judges).”
Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail clearly told Zafar that any sympathy they had for him had faded away following his behaviour.
Ali Zafar responded by stating that the members of the bench forming committee are part of the bench and questioned how they can declare the formation of the bench legal. In response, the Chief Justice remarked that if they consider this point, then members of the committee judges won’t be part of any bench.
Later, the apex court adjourned the hearing till tomorrow at 11:30 AM.
