The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday directed the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to decide within two weeks the petitions seeking suspension of sentence filed by lawyer Imaan Mazari and her husband Hadi Chattha, while keeping the matter pending before itself until the high court reaches a decision.
A three-member bench headed by Justice Shahid Waheed heard the case, during which the couple’s counsel, Faisal Siddiqi, informed the court that the IHC had only issued notices on the sentence appeals and that no further hearing had taken place on the appeals in over two months.
“There is no relief for us in the IHC,” Siddiqi told the bench, arguing that the court should direct a decision on the sentence suspension petition.
Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan, however, noted that no adverse order had been passed against the petitioners either. “There is no order against you from the high court,” he remarked, adding that the IHC had not dismissed the sentence suspension petition.