Source: LUBP
Mother of session judge Zulfiqar Naqvi mourns over his dead body. Will Pakistani judges honour the sacrifice of their own colleague?
According to a news report, banned Deobandi-Wahhabi militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ, also operating as Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ASWJ) has accepted responsibility for killing a Shiite Session Judge Zulfiqar Naqvi in Quetta. The LeJ is known for its close links with the Al Qaeda and Taliban and has killed thousands of Shia Muslims, Sunni Barelvis and dozens of Christians and Ahmadis in Pakistan in the last few years.
In its latest statement, the LeJ threatened all judges including the Chief Justice to refrain from sentencing of the LeJ-ASWJ-Taliban terrorists currently in police custody. Th LeJ threatened the judiciary to refrain from issuing any verdict against the arrested Deobandi-Wahhabi militants.
In the same statement, the LeJ also threatened journalists demanding them to publish its press releases in full and refrain from painting LeJ-Jihadi’s militant/terrorist operations in bad light.
It is important to recall that LeJ’s threat is only to the non-complying judges and journalists. The pro-LeJ judges such as Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, Justice Asif Saeed Khosa etc and the pro-LeJ journalists such as Hamid Mir, Ansar Abbasi, Ahmad Noorani etc were clearly not a target of the threat.
For all practical purposes, it its the lower court judges and their families who continue to receive severe threats from terrorists when their cases are taken up in lower courts.
Chief Justice of Pakistan should immediately take Suo motu action on these developments and save the country from these violent Mullahs.
Suo motu, meaning “on its own motion,” is a Latin legal term, approximately equivalent to the term sua sponte. For example, it is used where a government agency acts on its own cognizance, as in “the Commission took suo motu control over the matter.”