In the Nawaz return case, Fawad asks the SC to overturn the LHC verdict.
PTI leader challenges whether the bench was “justified” in rejecting his request to be added to the case.
ISLAMABAD: On Wednesday, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry appealed to the Supreme Court (SC) against the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) decision to deny his request to be included as a party in the case involving the return of PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif to Pakistan.
The PTI leader said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had promised that his brother will return to Pakistan at the moment Nawaz was granted permission to leave overseas.
Fawad had already petitioned the LHC to join the current case as a party, but the high court denied his request.
The PTI leader said in his argument before the supreme court today that Nawaz Sharif was a “fugitive criminal” and that Shehbaz had “given him a diplomatic passport” rather than serving as his guarantor.”
He asked the court if it was “justified to dismiss the petition of the petitioner without discussing the facts and law point involved in the petition” and urged it to direct the LHC to include him as a party in the proceeding.
The former information minister questioned in his appeal if the high court “rightly opined that the petitioner is not a necessary party when he is a citizen of Pakistan and [the] matter pending before [the] Lahore High Court involves corruption in [the] public exchequer and public money” because it involved public funds.
Additionally, it questioned whether the bench “correctly dismissed the petitioner’s various applications without taking into account the rights of Pakistani citizens guaranteed by the chapter of fundamental rights of [the] Constitution.”
In rejecting Fawad’s petition, which “involved the law point of public importance and larger public interest of the country,” the LHC was “not justified,” the petition claims. Additionally, the court was “not justified” in disregarding the established legal standards governing affidavits presented to the court.
Additionally, it stated that the LHC erroneously dismissed Fawad’s appeal “on a technical ground rather discuss and adjudicate upon the disgrace and foul play done by Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif with the court and law of land”.
The petition demanded that Fawad be “ordered to be impleaded as party” in the aforementioned case that was still ongoing before the LHC, and that the LHC’s decision “be set aside in the interest of justice.”
