Pak judges refuse to hear complaints against lawyers
Afp, Islamabad
Two Pakistani judges have quit a panel dealing with a complaint over lawyers who shouted slogans against army rule and the country's judiciary, court officials said yesterday. Last week, the Supreme Court announced the panel would start hearing petitions against remarks made at a seminar that was attended by suspended chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. President Pervez Musharraf has said the May 26 seminar was "tantamount to humiliating the armed forces and judiciary." "Justice Faqir Muhammad Khokhar and Justice Saiyed Saeed Ashhad have declined to sit on the bench and now a three-member bench will hear the petitions," a Supreme Court spokesman told AFP. Both judges are also part of a 13-member panel hearing Chaudhry's petition against his March 9 suspension by Musharraf on misconduct charges.
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