The Islamabad High Court on Wednesday sought a reply from Additional Attorney General (AAG) in response to a miscellaneous petition filed by Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) regarding its order to suspend registration of an FIR in connection with the violence on the Constitution Avenue on August 30.
A single-member bench headed by Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui heard the petition, which urged the court to review its judgement in which the court had suspended the FIR registered against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Federal Minister for Interior Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique, three Inspectors General of Police (IGPs) and several other police officials.
During the course of proceedings, Waqas Malik, the counsel for PAT, pleaded that the AAG had misquoted facts while representing the Federal government during the proceedings of a petition filed by three relevant Inspectors General of Police (IGPs), including the previous IGP Islamabad Khalid Khattak, Punjab IGP Mushtaq Sukhera and IGP Pakistan Railways, who challenged the registration of FIRs against them on the orders of an Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) in connection with the violence on the Constitution Avenue on August 30.
Waqas Malik informed the bench that the respondents in their petition before the IHC had assailed orders of the additional sessions judge Islamabad Shahrukh Arjumand who while deciding Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) vice chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi's petition had ordered the secretariat police to register an FIR. The police then registered an FIR (221/14) in this respect.
He contended that the petitioners IG Islamabad and others, however attached with their petition an FIR (206/14) that was registered on the orders of District and Sessions Judge Raja Jawad Abbas on an application of PAT. Therefore, he added that by assailing orders in the matter of PTI and attaching a different FIR in the matter of PAT with the petition, the petitioners and others misled the IHC and got suspended the FIR (206/14) that was registered on PAT's application.
He urged the court to issue directions for an inquiry against an additional attorney general for Pakistan (AAG) and Inspector General (IG) of Islamabad Police and others for allegedly concealing the facts consequent to which an FIR registered against the federal government top functionaries was suspended. He pleaded before the bench to review its judgement and issue directives for the resumption of an FIR registered on the complaint of the PAT. The bench sought a reply from AAG Muhammad Waqar Rana and adjourned the proceedings of case till the second week of December.
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