Judges Worry about the Safety of My Lord the Chief Justice

An advocate who met with four dissenting judges of Lahore High Court says their Lordships had not regrets, but they were worried about the safety of the Chief Justice, Mr Justice Chaudhry Iftikhar Muhammad.

The judges the writer met are Mr. Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed, Mr. Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif, Mr. Justice Umar Ata Bandial and Mr. Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa.

“Their faces were sparkling with the honour” of principled stand and “their living rooms were full with guests congratulating them and their families for being so upright in the hour of adversity”, says the writer, who assumed anonymous for fear of persecution.

An account of the meeting and the impressions the writer had during the meeting have been published by the prestigious Jurist legal news and research website of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.