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| 14 May 2004 | Friday | 23 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1425 |
Shahbaz seeks SC intervention
ISLAMABAD, May 13: PML-N president Mian Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday moved an appeal before the Supreme Court to direct the government to arrange for his immediate return to Pakistan from Jeddah.
"As the respondents, in contumacious defiance of the law declared by this court, have actually deported the petitioner, they be ordered and directed to procure and arrange for the petitioner's immediate return to Pakistan," the petition contended.
Filed under Article 185(3) of the Constitution through his counsel, Abdul Hafiz Pirzada, the petitioner requested the apex court to direct Deputy Director, Federal Investigation Agency, Immigration, Lahore, Assistant Director, FIA (immigration), Allama Iqbal International Airport, Lahore, and the Federation of Pakistan through secretary interior ministry to take Shahbaz Sharif into judicial custody on his return and produce him before the Anti-Terrorism Court No.3, Lahore, under his fundamental rights of access to justice to face trial and criminal charges against him.
The petitioner stated that the fundamental right to have access to justice had been denied to him and it was not permissible under the law to leave him without remedy. The petitioner stated that by forcibly deporting him to Saudi Arabia, the government had arrogantly defied a Supreme Court judgment.
The petitioner has also mentioned alleged refusal of the Lahore High Court to entertain his earlier petition to seek restraining order against his deportation and stated that the high court refused to accept his petition despite the fact that the federation had publicly declared that he would be deported immediately on his return.
He contended that after SC judgment in which it was held that Mr Shahbaz could come and stay in Pakistan, it was binding on the high court to protect him from being deported and issue orders to produce him before the relevant court of law.
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