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The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday decided to remove accountability judge Arshad Malik from his post, officials said, following a controversy revolving around the\u00a0‘leaked’ video tape\u00a0of the judge.<\/strong><\/p>\n Judge Malik, on Dec 4, 2018, had handed ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif seven years in jail in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption reference. He, however, had acquitted him in a second reference related to Flagship Investments, saying “there was no case against Nawaz”.<\/p>\n On July 6, PML-N vice president Maryam Safdar opened a Pandora\u2019s box\u00a0with a startling claim\u00a0that the judge “confessed” he had been \u201cpressurised and blackmailed\u201d to convict her father in the Al-Azizia reference. A video containing the judge\u2019s alleged confession during his conversation with a \u2018sympathiser\u2019 of the PML-N, Nasir Butt, was screened during a hurriedly called presser at the party\u2019s provincial headquarters in Model Town.<\/p>\n The judge, on July 7,\u00a0denied\u00a0being under any pressure, but admitted that Nasir Butt was an acquaintance.<\/p>\n On Friday, judge Malik wrote a letter to IHC acting Chief Justice Aamer Farooq in which he said that the videos shared by Maryam were fake. He also filed an affidavit before the IHC chief justice along with his letter.<\/p>\n Justice Farooq perused the letter but decided to relieve judge Malik without conducting an inquiry since he is an official of the subordinate judiciary of the LHC.<\/p>\n The IHC judge directed the registrar office to write a letter to the law ministry regarding relieving judge Malik of his post and repatriating him to the parent department, the Lahore High Court.<\/p>\n Shortly after the announcement, Maryam Safdar \u2014 who shared the video at a press conference on Saturday \u2014 called for the verdict against her father former president Nawaz Sharif in the Al Azizia reference to be declared void.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday decided to remove accountability judge Arshad Malik from his post, officials said, following a controversy revolving around the\u00a0‘leaked’ video tape\u00a0of the judge. Judge Malik, on Dec 4, 2018, had handed ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif seven years in jail in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption reference. He, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,21,2,147],"tags":[315,316,317],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-accountability-judge","tag-arshad-malik","tag-ihc","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}