Lahore (Staff Report): The Lahore High Court (LHC) has ordered Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal to appear before the court on May 30 in a contempt case.
A three-member bench of the LHC on Thursday heard a case against the Interior minister for an "anti-judiciary speech" made by him in a seminar last month where he had criticised Chief Justice Saqib Nisar for allegedly levelling baseless allegations against him, saying that the latter had “no right to name-call people”.
The minister was absent from today's hearing.
Iqbal's counsel Azam Nazir Tarar told the three-member bench that the minister was in Saudi Arabia, due to which he could not appear before the court, but will be present in the next hearing.
Iqbal had not appeared in the last hearing as well since he was undergoing treatment after being shot earlier this month.
Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority's representative submitted the transcript of Iqbal's alleged defamatory speech to the court.
