Govt seeks three weeks adjournment in Justice Qazi Faez Isa case.

ISLAMABAD -- A day after Anwar Mansoor Khan resigned as the attorney general of Pakistan (AGP), the federal government on Friday sought three weeks adjournment in Justice Qazi Faez Isa case.

An application in this regard was moved by Additional Attorney General Ch Amir Rehman in the Supreme Court.

Khan was representing the federal government in Justice Isa's case. His resignation came after the Pakistan Bar Council demanded Khan's resignation following his contemptuous comments regarding a full-court bench hearing Justice Isa's case against the presidential reference.

In a letter addressed to President Dr Arif Alvi, Khan had said that he was a lifetime member of the Karachi, Sindh and Supreme Court bar associations and wanted to 'reaffirm faith in the highest principles of integrity and professional excellence that the Pakistan Bar Council has always stood for'.

'Accordingly, I hereby resign from the position of the Attorney-General for Pakistan and request you to accept it with immediate effect,' he wrote.

'In the last year-and-a-half, I worked to the best of my ability to serve this solemn...