LAHORE: District & Sessions Judge Mujahid Mustaqim acting in the
capacity of Special Judge Banking Court had adjourned the NICL case
hearing on the FIA’s request till September 17.
Earlier in
Tuesday’s proceedings Moonis Elahi’s lawyer during his arguments urged
the Honourable Court that if the FIA was being unduly facilitated to
appoint a new prosecutor and present a new challan then his client
should also be given the due relief denied to him thus far. He further
argued that in Zafar Qureshi’s request to the Honourable Court nowhere
had he asked for a full month to complete the investigation. Moonis
Elahi’s lawyer strongly objected to the language used by Zafar Qureshi
in his letter addressed to the Honourable Court.
He said that
the tone and tanner of the said letter was such that it seemed Zafar
Qureshi was giving orders to the court and doing so was in his
jurisdiction. He said that according to contents of the said letter the
Honourable Court was nothing more than a post office. The Honourable
Court reprimanded the FIA officials for continuously changing the
agency’s representative in the course of the proceedings. The
Honourable Court instructed the FIA to appoint a permanent
representative to be present in the proceedings. On the Court’s inquiry
that how much more time did the FIA require to complete the
investigation, the FIA officials forwarded an application requesting
for one month to complete the task.
Later talking to the media,
Moonis Elahi’s lawyer Rai Bashir Ahmad accused Zafar Qureshi of taking
undue advantages of the importance given to him by Supreme Court. He
further accused Zafar Qureshi of leveraging the Supreme Court’s
importance to dictate his own orders to the Lower Courts. He alleged
Zafar Qureshi of blackmailing the courts and said that this was neither
in the judiciary’s interest nor in the interest of the public. He said
that Moonis Elahi to express his faith in the country’s law and the
judiciary’s capacity to dispense justice had returned voluntarily from
England which had no extradition treaty signed with Pakistan. A large
number of Pakistan Muslim League’s supporters were present in the court
throughout the day’s proceedings where senior leader of Pakistan Muslim
League Moonis Elahi was brought in an armored vehicle amid high
security. Online
