{"id":45093,"date":"2024-08-15T15:03:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T10:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=45093"},"modified":"2024-08-15T15:22:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T10:22:33","slug":"cj-isa-criticizes-cabinet-secretary-over-margalla-hills-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/cj-isa-criticizes-cabinet-secretary-over-margalla-hills-case\/","title":{"rendered":"CJP Isa criticizes Cabinet Secretary over Margalla Hills case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: During a tense Supreme Court session,<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/army-chief-meets-army-veterans-lauds-their-role-in-shaping-the-nations-history\/\"> Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa<\/a> expressed his frustration with Cabinet Secretary Kamran Ali Afzal over the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/supreme-court-orders-closure-of-all-resturants-including-monal-in-islamabads-margalla-hills\/\">Margalla Hills National Park <\/a>and Chairman Wildlife Board case.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice Isa grilled Secretary Afzal about the notification related to the Chairman of the Wildlife Board, asking, \u201cWhy shouldn\u2019t you be indicted?\u201d and demanding, \u201cWho issued the notification and on whose orders?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Secretary Afzal revealed that the directive to change the Chairman came directly from the Prime Minister\u2019s office. Chief Justice Isa accused Afzal of shifting blame to protect his brother, Luqman Ali Afzal, and questioned his whereabouts. Secretary Afzal admitted he did not know where his brother was.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Chief Justice also noted a rise in propaganda against the Supreme Court following the Margalla Hills order, questioning who was behind it and urging for accountability and transparency.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding illegal land development in the Margalla Hills, Chief Justice Isa interrogated the legal representatives of a private housing society about their ownership documents.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer stated the documents were with his client, Siddique Anwar, who was expected to arrive at the Supreme Court shortly.<\/p>\n<p>CJ Isa highlighted the involvement of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pti-mna-re-arrested-in-multan-while-escaping-abroad\/\">Capital Development Authority (CDA)<\/a> in the case, inquiring about the CDA officer who contacted the society\u2019s owner. The advocate revealed that advertisements for the society, based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, were displayed throughout Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Justice criticized the government\u2019s handling of the case, lamenting the influence of the land mafia and expressing concern over the state of governance.<\/p>\n<p>He also questioned the government\u2019s decision to return 190 million pounds from Britain to a powerful individual, criticizing the lack of accountability and expressing gratitude for active foreign agencies. In closing, he challenged critics of the judiciary to confront the court directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: During a tense Supreme Court session, Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa expressed his frustration with Cabinet Secretary Kamran Ali Afzal over the Margalla Hills National Park and Chairman Wildlife Board case. Chief Justice Isa grilled Secretary Afzal about the notification related to the Chairman of the Wildlife Board, asking, \u201cWhy shouldn\u2019t you be indicted?\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":45095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3777,1200,241,20475,20476],"class_list":["post-45093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-margalla-hills-national-park","tag-supreme-court","tag-cda","tag-cj-qazi-faiz-isa","tag-margalla-hills-case"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45093","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45098,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45093\/revisions\/45098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}