A five-judge larger bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed is going to take up on Monday the petition seeking suspension of the IHC order for release of the UTPs. IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah issued the order while taking up a petition based on a report of the IHC judicial branch on Islamabad-based UTPs. The statement said the IHC order was passed in peculiar circumstances in the wake of the outbreak of deadly COVID- 19, “just on humanitarian and compassionate grounds only in cases of the UTPs. They will strongly oppose the petition against the IHC order. An active lawyer Umer Gilani said the first issue which will have to be examined is that of locus standi of the petition filed against the IHC order.

Source: The Express Tribune March 29, 2020 11:03 UTC