LAHORE: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) former chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal on Tuesday challenged the establishment of an inquiry commission to probe the Tayyaba Gull issue in the Lahore High Court.

Advocate Safdar Shaheen representing Mr Iqbal had filed a petition with the court and made the federal government party to it.

Miss Gull had lodged a harassment case with the accountability court in Lahore and also before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in the National Assembly.

The PAC also had issued notice to Mr Iqbal for hearing but he did not appear before the committee and challenged it in Islamabad High Court.

The court had issued a stay order on the notice of the PAC.

The petitioner pleaded before the court that the federal government could not form an inquiry committee because the matter was sub judice.

He said it was a violation of article 10-A of the constitution and no one could start investigation into a case which was sub judice.

He said Miss Gull had filed the cases to tarnish the image of the petitioner.

He also pleaded to cancel the formation of inquiry commission.

Published in Dawn, August 3rd, 2022