Islamabad High Court dismisses Shireen Mazari’s ‘tractor trolley’ petition
A record print of Defence Minister Khawaja Asif. PHOTO: REUTERS
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court on Wednesday discharged a petition by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf’s Shireen Mazari seeking a suspension of Defence Minister Khawaja Asif over his remarks during a National Assembly event in June.
During a discuss in a House on Jun 8, Asif had forked towards Mazari and said, “someone make this tractor trolley keep quiet.” The apportion afterwards went on to ask a PTI personality to renovate her “masculine voice into a some-more delicate one.”
Justice Athar Minallah of a IHC discharged a petition as non-maintainable after conference arguments from Mazari’s warn Barrister Shoaib Razzaq. The justice had destined Mazari’s warn to disagree over how a matter associated to National Assembly record could be taken adult by a court.
In his remarks, Justice Minallah asked if a PTI, being one of a largest domestic parties, took any movement following a incident. Did a celebration make any efforts to list a check in this regard, he said, adding if a postulant had approached police for a registration of a box opposite Asif.
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The decider also inquired as to what movement had been taken when a postulant was not confident with how a matter was dealt inside a parliament. He combined that justice could not interfere in such matters gripping in perspective Article 69 (courts not to scrutinise into a record of parliament) of a Constitution as it supposing parliamentary payoff to MNAs.
Earlier, Mazari had requested a justice to approach a National Assembly orator to trigger disciplinary movement and impute a matter to a Election Commission of Pakistan to invalidate a minister.
The law ministry, National Assembly speaker, sovereign apportion for parliamentary affairs and Asif were cited as respondents in a petition. Razzaq had pronounced that Asif done derogative remarks opposite a petitioner, “which were a covenant of a libertine,” during a National Assembly event on Jun 8.
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The warn stressed that a remarks were duly televised and watched around a creation by millions and remained available on amicable media. Razzaq had also said that a remarks are rapist in inlet as Asif had defamed Mazari that comes underneath territory 500 of a Pakistan Penal Code, 1860. Asif had verbally tormented Mazari which combined a antagonistic operative sourroundings for her and so comes underneath The Protection Against Harassment of Women during a Workplace Act, 2010, he had argued.
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