akistan Bar Council (PBC) members including Abid Zuberi Friday appealed to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to form the full court to hear the suomoto notice of the letter written by six Islamabad High Court (IHC) judges complaining of “meddling” by intelligence agencies in judicial matters.
The members of the Pakistan Bar Council have also applied to the Supreme Court to become a party in the suomoto case of the six judges’ letter.
In the application, the members of the Bar Council have said that the High Court judges should be made a party in the six judges’ letter case.
The PBC members have said that the full court comprising all the judges should hear the case and secret agencies should be prevented from interfering in judicial affairs.
The PBC members also appealed in the application that the Judicial Council should be ordered to issue instructions on the reservations of the judges of the Islamabad High Court.
It is also stated in the application that the independence of the judiciary is related to fundamental rights, and for the independence of the judiciary and the provision of justice, it is necessary to investigate the letters of the judges.
On March 25, six Islam¬abad High Court judges — out of a total strength of eight — wrote a letter to the Supreme Jud¬icial Council (SJC) members regarding attempts to pressurise judges through abduction and torture of their relatives as well as secret surveillance.
