Another audio on suo motu notice featuring ex-CJP Saqib Nisar surfaces

Another audio on suo motu notice featuring ex-CJP Saqib Nisar surfaces. Another alleged audio leak featuring former chief justice Saqib Nisar and lawyer Khawaja Tariq Raheem has come to the fore, just days after the leaked audio of a phone call between the incumbent top Supreme Court judge’s mother-in-law and Raheem’s wife stirred up a political storm in the country.

In the latest purported audio leak, the former top judge is speaking about the judgement of a seven-member bench on a “suo motu” notice taken by the apex court in 2010 to Raheem and asking him to look into the matter.

Nisar is purportedly heard telling the details of the judgment to Raheem and saying that it had the “way out” for them.

Moreover, Nisar also refers to the ouster of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Sardar Tanveer Ilyas as the Azad Jammu and Kashmir prime minister over contempt of court.

At this, the senior lawyer said that they were planning to file another contempt case.

Nisar asked the lawyer to file a contempt of court case against Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, via Muneer Ahmed.

Meanwhile, Raheem said in the video that a verdict by the three-member bench would be out soon, in reference to the verdict issued by an eight-member bench which issued a stay on the case of clipping top justice’s powers.

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The three-member bench had directed the government to release Rs21 billion by April 27 for the snap polls, and had warned of serious consequences in case of non-compliance with orders.

Conversation against right to privacy: Nisar

After the audio leak, Nisar said while talking to Geo News said  that the conversation with Raheem was private but he doesn’t know when and which case it was about.

“It is against the right to privacy that a conversation between two people is shared like this,” he said.

The former top judge asked if he had “sold Kashmir or made a deal about Pakistan”.

“Audio leak is a stolen property. Stealing and selling that property is the work of cursed people,” he added.