IHC's Justice Tariq Jahangiri says 'judges have become prisoners'

Islamabad High Court's judge Justice Tariq Jahangiri has said the judges have become 'prisoners'.

In a video circulating on social media, Justice Jahangiri in his address at a ceremony said people become judges for respect, else everything is being 'managed' here in Pakistan.

It is to be noted that IHC top judges – including Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kiyani, Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, Justice Baqir Sattar, Justice Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan, Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir, and Justice Salman Rafat Imtiaz – penned the letter to SJC in the aftermath of Supreme Court’s March 22 judgment on Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui’s dismissal case.

In the letter, the top judges sought guidance from the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) with regard to the duty of a “judge to report and respond to actions on part of members of the executive, including operatives of intelligence agencies, that seek to interfere with discharge of his/her official functions and qualify as intimidation”.