In a contempt of court case, independent Senator Faisal Vawda and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) MNA Mustafa Kamal have both unconditionally apologized to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court rescinded the contempt order against the two political leaders during the Friday session, accepting Faisal Vawda’s unqualified apology. The court postponed the next hearing date to a later date and ordered the involved TV networks to provide their response in two weeks.
The case was considered by a three-judge panel that included Justice Aqeel Abbasi, Justice Naeem Akhtar, and Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa.
The hearing
CJP Isa asked if the remarks made in the press conference amounted to embarrassing a judge during the hearing. “Does it not constitute hatred and contempt against the judge and the court?” he inquired.
Attorney Faisal Siddiqui was instructed by the CJP to reply in the capacity of a court officer. In hindsight, the attorney claimed that Mustafa Kamal’s remark was not in contempt of court, but Faisal Vawda’s was.
As a TV station, his clients distributed the two press conferences, the chief justice said, but now he was charging them of contempt and stating they did nothing. He said that press conferences are heard, edited, and then transmitted in foreign nations instead of being displayed live.
