CJP ‘guilty, deserves punishment’: Maryam

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz Sharif in response to the top court’s stay order on the proceedings of the audio leaks inquiry commission on Saturday said Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial "is guilty and deserves punishment". In a statement released on social networking site Twitter, the PML-N chief organiser claimed that preventing the commission from functioning “is a proof and admission of his guilt”. Maryam stated that the person occupying the highest chair of justice was shamelessly using his position to evade accountability. She said that CJP Bandial was “deserving of punishment for making a mockery of the law and turning the judiciary into a spectacle to save his family”. The bench had held that consultation of the CJP was required for the nomination of high court judges in the inquiry.