The Intelligence Bureau has decided to withdraw the revision petition filed in the Supreme Court in the Faizabad sit-in case.
Faizabad sit-in revision case has been scheduled for hearing in the Supreme Court after a long time. However, now the Deputy Director of the Intelligence Bureau, Faid Asadullah Khan, has filed a separate petition in the Supreme Court, in which he has said that the Intelligence Bureau wants to withdraw the review against the decision.
IB has pleaded that the revision petition be allowed to be withdrawn. There are seven other petitions in the Faizabad dharna revision case. One of the petitioners in the same case is Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed, whose lawyer Amanullah Kunrani has filed an application in the Supreme Court to postpone the case.
It has been argued in the petition that Advocate Amanullah Kunrani, who has become the caretaker Law Minister of Balochistan, cannot appear as Sheikh Rasheed’s counsel.
It was also stated in the petition that the lawyer is not able to contact his client Sheikh Rasheed, so it is requested that the hearing of the case be postponed on September 28 keeping in view the demands of justice.
It should be noted that the Supreme Court had taken suo motu notice on the sit-in of Faizabad TLP in 2017. The Supreme Court had given strict observations in this case.
Aggrieved parties including ISI, the Ministry of Home Affairs filed revision petitions in the Supreme Court on 15 April 2019.
Expressing reservations over the February 6 judgment of the Supreme Court in the Faizabad sit-in case, the ISI has maintained in the revision petition that the reputation of the Armed Forces has been severely damaged due to the judgment.
ISI clarified in the application that the Pakistan Army has zero tolerance for violation of oath. If there is any such allegation, it is investigated. In the petition, the Supreme Court was requested to review the decision of February 6.
The petition, filed by the Attorney General of Pakistan, said that the observations made in the court judgment seem to indicate that the armed forces have violated their oath. The observations in the decision to stop broadcasting Jio and Dawn TV are also baseless.
It stated how the ISI could tell what was the source of income of Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan. It was not our jurisdiction that the court kept asking. The court has mentioned the sensitive institutions of different countries in the judgment but did not mention the circumstances.
In the petition, the ISI argued that the forces can respond to enemies on criticism and anti-propaganda, but when such observations come from the court, the armed forces cannot defend themselves against the enemies of the country.
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