Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday accepted the petition of the lawyer Iman Zainab Mazari-Khazir to dismiss the case. against her pakistani army for allegedly “offensive and defamatory senior team” of institution.
IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah heard the petition.
BUT first information report (FIR) has been registered against Mazar Khazir on May 26 at the Ramna Metropolitan Police Department on a complaint of Lieutenant Colonel Syed Humayun Iftikhtar, who represented the Division of the Judge Advocate General (JAG) of General Staff (GHQ).
JAG branch of The Pakistan Armed Forces are of in the military senior officials, lawyers and judges who provide legal services to the army, air force fleet and marines of all levels of team. Subject to jurisprudence of army.
She was prosecuted under Article 505 (incitement to crime). people against armed forces) and 138 (aiding of act of disobedience on the part of a soldier) of Pakistan Penal Code.
FIR reported that Mazar Khazir made “pejorative and hateful” statement on May 21, her day mother, former human rights minister Shirin Mazari was arrested in outside her house in ownership of the land and the transfer of the case.
Video of later shared a visibly distraught Mazar-i-Khazir on social media in where she could be seen talking about Chef of Army Headquarters (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa.
She subsequently approached the IHC stating that in her petition that “FIR is baseless and the allegations are absurd”.
During today’s hearing, Mazari-Khazir’s attorney, Zainab Janjua, stated that her client showed up for every interrogation on court order.
Two police cars drove up to the house of Mazar-Khazir. house on Sunday night, to deliver the notice, she informed the court. “We asked the investigator to inform us what accusations. Our request was denied and we were shown a video [of Mazari-Hazir’s remarks].”
Janjua said she provided a detailed reply to the police on the same day. “We previously agreed that the video [original] and we accept it today.”
counsel further said that her client expressed “regret” over her words and acknowledged that “what happened should Did not happen”.
Judge Minallah noted that Mazar-i-Hazir was a respectable officer. of court and should did not utter a word even under “normal circumstances”.
“If a petitioner asks for forgiveness what is left in a business? – he asked.
Nonetheless counsel for the JAG branch claimed that the word forgiveness was never mentioned in in reply submitted by Mazar-i-Khazir. “If she has to apologize, she should Do it in this way in front of in media,” he added.
Subsequently, the court accepted the petition of Mazar-Khazir and dismissed the case. against her.
