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Monday, March 07, 2011
SC to hear plea seeking contempt proceedings against Musharraf
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) will today (Monday) take up an application seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against all those people outside the judiciary, including former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf and former prime minister Shaukat Aziz, who had not obeyed the November 3, 2007, restraining order, which had been issued by a seven-member bench of the court. Justice Javed Iqbal will take up the issue in his chamber. Abdul Razzaq, a resident of Abbottabad, through his counsel Muhammad Aslam Ghuman, had moved a petition against Musharraf, Shaukat Aziz and others. He had requested that all the respondents should be summoned and given exemplary punishments for violating the SC’s November 3, 2007, restraining order, which barred the former head of state and the former prime minister from undertaking any action which was contrary to the independence of judiciary. app
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