Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea of the Central Information Secretary of Pakistan, Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader, Dr. Shireen Mazari against the Minister for Defence Khawaja Asif, for calling her a ‘tractor trolley.

A single member bench of the IHC comprising Justice Athar Minallah heard Mazari’s plea against Khawaja Asif.

During the course of the proceedings, Justice Athar Minallah observed that that parliamentary proceedings couldn’t be discussed in the court. However, the counsel for the petitioner Barrister Shoaib Razzaq couldn’t give arguments on the legal points for the maintainability of the case.

During last hearing of the case, the court had directed the petitioner’s counsel to give arguments on legal points on the matter related to the parliamentary proceedings and whether they could be discussed in the court or not?

Dr. Shireen Mazari, in her petition, had stated that Khawaja Asif had said “Someone make this tractor trolley silent” during the National Assembly session on June 8.

She had prayed the court to direct the Speaker National Assembly to forward a reference to the Election Commission of Pakistan for the disqualification of Khawaja Asif.

Meanwhile, the same bench of IHC rejected a plea against MNA and PkMAP leader Mehmood Khan Achakzai, for passing some controversial remarks in the National Assembly regarding Afghan immigrants.

The counsel for the petitioner contented in the court that the Speaker National Assembly had taken no action against the MNA regarding Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

After hearing the arguments at large, the court remarked that parliamentary proceedings couldn’t be discussed in the court and dismissed the case.