ISLAMABAD: A day before the scheduled hearing of contempt of court case, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday pleaded the Supreme Court to include three witnesses, DawnNews reported.

The prime minister has requested to include cabinet secretary Nargis Sethi, former law minister Babar Awan and law secretary Masood Chishti as witnesses in a reply submitted by his counsel Aitzaz Ahsan to the apex court.

In the reply, Mr Gilani has requested the court to call the mentioned witnesses itself because as a prime minister he does not want to leave an impression of pressurising the government officials to testify in his favour.

He also requested to bring the summary in which the prime minister was adviced by the apex court not to write letter to Swiss authorities for reopening graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari under National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO).

During the last hearing, Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq, who is the prosecutor in the case, submitted evidence to the court against the prime minister.

On February 13, PM Gilani was charged with contempt by the SC. Gilani had pleaded not guilty to the charges that could see him jailed for six months and disqualified from the office.

A seven-member bench, headed by Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk, will hear the case on Tuesday.