ISLAMABAD, Oct 09 (Online): Islamabad High Court (IHC) has issued notice to FIA, former army chief General (Retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa and former DG ISI Gen (Retd) Faiz Hameed for breaching legal restrictions and stating different events in wrong and fabricated way.
The case came up for hearing before IHC led by Chief Justice (CH) IHC Aamir Farooq Monday.
CJ IHC issued written order of hearing the petition filed by a citizen Atif Ali from Rawalpindi.
It has been said in the order according to petitioner FIR was requested repeatedly after filing application for registration of case. PEMRA was also requested. But no action was taken.
The counsel for the petitioner requested the court to order FIA to register case against former army chief Gen (Retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa, Gen (Retd) Faiz Hameed, journalists Javed Chaudhry and Shahid Maitla and initiate proceedings against them.
The citizen took the plea in its petition that Gen (Retd) Bajwa and Gen (Retd) Faiz Hameed crossed the existing legal restrictions in showing different events in wrong and fabricated way after retirement. Therefore, they committed heinous crime. Criminal act was committed due to Qamar Javed Bajwa- Faiz Hameed nexus. FIA should register case and take action.
Petitioner further said that journalists Javed Chaudhry and Shahid Maitla wrote two articles only for the sake of viewership which left negative impact on the society.
I was surprised when I saw articles. Negative picture of the state institution was presented through articles in the guise of journalism to arrest attention. Criminal attitude came to fore in the guise of freedom of expression. The ongoing campaign in the perspective of these incidents is a bid to create mistrust among state institutions.
The court has issued notice to Former Army Chief Gen (Retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa, former DG ISI Gen (Retd) Faiz Hameed, journalists Javed Chaudhry, journalist Shahid Maitla, PEMRA and Press Association of Pakistan.
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