Plea seeking directive on complaint against PHC chief justice dismissed.

Byline: Malik Asad

ISLAMABAD -- The Islamabad High Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking a directive for the Senate Secretariat to take a decision on a complaint against Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Waqar Ahmed Seth, one of the members of the special court that convicted former president Pervez Musharraf in the high treason case and awarded him death sentence.

The petitioner, advocate Mohammad Siddique Mirza, told the court that he had on Dec 23 filed a complaint with the Parliamentary Committee on Judges Appointment against Justice Seth since he authored a paragraph in the judgement of the treason case in which he ordered dragging the corpse of Mr Musharraf to D-Chowk (in front of parliament) if found dead and leaving it there hanging for three days.

However, it was a minority view as the two judges in the special court had expressed their disagreement over the paragraph and one of them had written a dissenting note.

Advocate Mirza informed the court that he had filed a complaint with the parliamentary committee constituted under Article 175-A of the Constitution and sought a review of the conduct of members of the special court seized with the high treason trial against Mr Musharraf.

He adopted in the petition that he requested the Senate secretary to arrange his meeting with the members of the parliamentary committee, but to no avail.

Subsequently, he requested for a directive to the Senate secretary 'to arrange a meeting of the petitioner with the members of the parliamentary committee for preliminary hearing and disposal of...