In response to letters from judges alleging that intelligence services were interfering with their judicial work, Prime Minister Rana Sanaullah’s adviser on political and public affairs suggested creating a “mechanism” to prevent institutions from interfering with one another’s affairs.
“Writing a letter by the judges is enough (to prompt) the development of a mechanism so that institutions do not interfere in each other’s domains,” Sanaullah stated on the Geo News program “Naya Pakistan” .
The advisor to the prime minister made reference to a letter from judges of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that leaked in March and claimed intelligence agents were interfering with court proceedings.
In their letter to the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC), the judges of the Islamic Haq Court (IHC) — Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kiyani, Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, Justice Babar Sattar, Justice Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan, Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir, and Justice Saman Rafat Imtiaz — urged the body to hold a judicial convention in response to the alleged meddling in judicial affairs by intelligence services.
The Supreme Court convened a full court meeting on March 27 to discuss the letter that had surfaced. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the letter, which asked for guidance from the SJC “about the duty of a judge to report and respond to actions on the part of members of the executive, including operatives of intelligence agencies, that seek to interfere with the discharge of their duties.”
