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Justice Qazi Faez Isa Appeared before Supreme Court | Complete Details Of today case hearing

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has he answered regarding the properties his family possess outside Pakistan or still diverting the court questions by pointing out others all the time
 
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has he answered regarding the properties his family possess outside Pakistan or still diverting the court questions by pointing out others all the time
Same strategy as the na ahel toad

Stupid decision by government to file case against Justice Issa .
Actually that was the best decision they took given that such an anti PTI judge was going to become CJP around 2022-23 by taking him out PTI is clearing grounds for itself as for more ethical reasons well if he cant justify his assets he as a civil servant should be disqualified like other less equal citizens
 
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BS judges with BS drama nothing more

SC judges are acting like lawyers of justice essa its just another mafia

may be at night they all sit together on bottle of whiskey and laugh on us .

like that judge arshad was meeting NS family

this is pure joke nothign more . i dont know how stupid public thinks its serious issue .

when a judge can arrange court on sunday for hamza sharif and bail him then what you think he/she will do for his mate ??????????
 
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BS judges with BS drama nothing more

SC judges are acting like lawyers of justice essa its just another mafia

may be at night they all sit together on bottle of whiskey and laugh on us .

like that judge arshad was meeting NS family

this is pure joke nothign more . i dont know how stupid public thinks its serious issue .

when a judge can arrange court on sunday for hamza sharif and bail him then what you think he/she will do for his mate ??????????
Listening to court proceedings it is looking like Farogh Naseem, President and PM are on trial rather than Qazi Faiz Essa. The judges are giving the demeanor that who the hell is the government to question a judge's corruption. They know that if Essa is convicted the guns will turn towards them and their own corruption will be exposed.


In any other country this is an open and shut case. The judge has property that he has no means of owning and he is also not giving any money trail. Would have taken two hearings in the west.
 
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Listening to court proceedings it is looking like Farogh Naseem, President and PM are on trial rather than Qazi Faiz Essa. The judges are giving the demeanor that who the hell is the government to question a judge's corruption. They know that if Essa is convicted the guns will turn towards them and their own corruption will be exposed.


In any other country this is an open and shut case. The judge has property that he has no means of owning and he is also not giving any money trail. Would have taken two hearings in the west.
see my friend even if they know after essa its their term . they are same as mafia since day one i am watching this drama and laughing on it . they are sure in touch of each other and doing this child play . i am not interested in this drama anymore since day 1 . its just a stage nothing more . judges are with judges lawyers are with lawyers police is with police .everyone is with own co workers . forget the story
 
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OP-ED
Qazi Muhammad Isa and the reference against Justice Qazi Faez Isa

Yasser Latif Hamdani@theRealYLH
JUNE 15, 2020


Since the government has faced considerable reverses in the frivolous presidential reference against Justice QaziFaez Isa, it has now deputed its social media trolls and a retired civil servant of dubious credibility, OryaMaqbool Jan, to try and undermine the role of Justice Isa’s father Qazi Muhammad Isa (or as he spelt his name Essa) in the Pakistan Movement. All sorts of weird stories are made about him. None of the lies concocted by OryaMaqbool Jan and the government’s vicious social media team can undo the facts of history.

Qazi Isa and his wife Piari Rasheed Qazi were close personal friends of Mr. Jinnah, the Quaid-e-Azam. When Mr Jinnah visited Quetta in the 1940s, it was at their house that he stayed. Both of them were tasked with the consolidation of the Muslim League in Balochistan. Mr. Jinnah’s correspondence with Qazi Isa can be found in the Jinnah Papers. Countless references to Qazi Isa’s incredible efforts aimed at consolidating the Muslim League. On 31 July 1942, Mr Jinnah appointed Qazi Isa a member of the working committee of the Muslim League. This document can be found at item No. 180 F.809/503 of Volume XVIII of the Jinnah Papers III Series.

Similarly on the same date, i.e. 31 July 1942, Mr Jinnah wrote the following to Qazi Isa: “I was really pleased to hear of the great success of the Baluchistan Muslim Conference. Your account was most heartening and made me very happy. The result you are witnessing is no less due to your magnificent efforts, which you have made in Baluchistan. A new life has been put in our people in this remote part of India by the efforts of yourself and your co-workers.” Mr. Jinnah ended his letter with the uncharacteristic personal touch “Hoping to meet you very soon. With kind regards to Mrs Isa and yourself from Miss Jinnah and myself.” This is item No. 175 F. 302/111 of the aforesaid volume of Jinnah Papers.

Now compare this to the lie that government’s trolls are propagating on social media. They claim that Jinnah refused to accept Qazi Isa’s bouquet and told him to study for 20 years. It boggles the mind how these geniuses come up with these stories. Isa was Jinnah’s closest confidant in Balochistan province. Without his efforts the referendum in British Balochistan would never have gone in favour of the Muslim League.

We are a strange country. We slandered and abused Jinnah’s right hand man Sir Zafrullah Khan who got us the Kashmir resolutions. In 1965 the government of the day left no stone unturned to prove that Fatima Jinnah, Quaid’s own sister, was a traitor to the country working against its integrity. Now in order to bring down a principled judge of the Supreme Court, the government is maligning the historic role of one of the founding fathers of Pakistan.

We are a strange country. We slandered and abused Jinnah’s right hand man Sir Zafrullah Khan who got us the Kashmir resolutions

Meanwhile a most devious lot, including lawyers with questionable integrity, is prosecuting his son. The presidential reference against Justice QaziFaez Isa is utterly frivolous. There is no basis for it. Neither his spouse nor his children were dependents under Sections 116 and 182 of the Income Tax Ordinance. The reference does not establish any dependency and fails all legal tests. It does not establish misconduct. It was the President’s discretionary function to form an opinion about misconduct but he abdicated that responsibility by proceeding blindly on the advice of the Federal Government. It is a case of the mala fides in law. If on the other hand President proceeded on the basis of his own opinion, then in the absence of the aforementioned evidence, it becomes a case of mala fides of fact. This would establish that the President of Pakistan is neither sagacious nor Ameen, and therefore arguably subject to disqualification under Article 62(1)F of the Constitution.

It does not end with the President. Questions must also be raised about the unethical conduct of the lawyers pursuing this matter. So weak is their case and so unethical their conduct, that their licences ought to be suspended by their respective bar councils in Pakistan. Justice Isa is right in asking how Shahzad Akbar was appointed the head of the Asset Recovery Unit. There is no transparent process by which such a mediocre person with no special qualifications could be appointed head of the Asset Recovery Unit. All guidelines were bypassed.

This mala fide presidential reference hits at the very core of the principle of independence of judiciary. It would mean that every time an upright judge hands down a principled verdict that the government disagrees with, he would be threatened by a baseless mala fide reference. Therefore one hopes that the Supreme Court will make an example out of this reference by getting to the nub of the matter and holding those who prepared this presidential reference to account.

The writer is an Advocate of the High Courts of Pakistan

https://dailytimes.com.pk/626799/qazi-muhammad-isa-and-the-reference-against-justice-qazi-faez-isa/
 
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ISLAMABAD: A teary-eyed Mrs Justice Qazi Faez Isa on Thursday presented before the Supreme Court the evidence of funds used to purchase the three offshore properties whose money trail is a key to a presidential reference filed against her husband.

“We are quite satisfied that you have the material in support of the source (of money) for the properties,” observed Justice Umar Ata Bandial after the recording of her statement.

During the recording of her statement, Mrs Isa broke down several times and spoke in a choked voice while showing her documents.

“You have a strong answer to the slur caused by the allegations,” said Justice Bandial, who was heading a ten-judge full bench that was hearing a set of pleas that challenged a presidential reference against Justice Isa.

Zarina breaks into tears several times during her testimony recorded through video link

“We are impressed by your bravery and courage,” said Justice Bandial, who had in the morning allowed Mrs Isa to get her statement recorded after her husband had appeared on Wednesday before the court as her emissary to convey that she was willing to explain her position vis-à-vis the three properties.

Consequently, arrangements were made so that Mrs Isa, who remained at her residence, was hooked up via video link to Courtroom No 1 where the judges, the counsel and other people listened to her in complete silence.

In her statement before a visibly disturbed full court, Zarina Montessarat Carrera Khoso tried to establish that Justice Isa had nothing to do with the London properties, which became the basis of the presidential reference against her husband.

She began by conceding that she was nervous but added that whatever she was stating was correct.

She said her husband had suggested that she should not get involved (in the matter) because the reference was about him, but added that she wanted to clear her name as well as that of her family.

She then showed her birth certificate, which carried her maiden name. She said people made fun of her name for being `Cerina’, saying in Spanish Zarina was spelt as ‘Cerina’.

That name was also registered in her passport, to which she was entitled for having a Spanish mother, she said.

She also showed multiple entry visas granted to her by the Pakistan government on her passports when her husband had not become a judge of the Balochistan High Court, but pointed out that on Jan 8, 2020 the government issued a one-year multiple entry visa.

She lamented that she was being harassed and accused of misusing the office of her husband. “I would be better off had my husband not been a judge throughout....” She said she should be treated like an ordinary woman.

Because the land authorities in the UK accepted passport as a valid document, therefore the said properties were purchased with the name as mentioned in the passport, Mrs Isa said.

Explaining how she earned the money required, she said she used to teach at the prestigious Karachi American School before she got married. At the school, tax was also deducted from her salary, which included additional benefits like house rent, conveyance allowance, etc though she did not need to pay rent.

Her tax adviser Rehan Hassan Naqvi used to pay the tax returns on her behalf, she said. While showing copies of her tax returns, she said it took her a long time to get the documents. The Pakistan government had provided her with a tax certificate for paying the taxes.

She also deplored that her regional tax officer had been changed from Karachi to Islamabad without her knowledge and although she went to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) twice she was never asked about the source of funds for the properties.

In Karachi, she said, she owned an office, which was shared with another lady and which was later sold. This was disclosed in the annual income tax returns.

Similarly, another property in Clifton, Karachi, was sold on which tax was also paid, she said. A third property in Shah Latif Town in Karachi was encroached upon.

In addition to the properties in Karachi, she had vast agricultural lands in Jacobabad, Sindh, and Dera Murad Jamali, Balochistan, she said.

Mrs Isa spent considerable time in reading out the Khasra number of each piece of land.

“I don’t want to make a wrong statement but I believe tax must have been paid,” she said adding that she was advised by her tax adviser to open foreign bank accounts since the government was encouraging it and this was legal too.

“I relied on the advice of the adviser who also stated that there was no need to mention anything about the agricultural lands if foreign exchange account was used,” she said.

“The two foreign currency accounts bear a Karachi address,” she said while holding some papers before the camera but requesting that this not be shared with the government because she didn’t “trust them”.

She said she bought the properties between 2003 and 2013 and transferred a total of 700,000 pounds through the Standard Chartered Bank; the money was transferred in her own name. “The bank reports every transaction to the State Bank of Pakistan,” she stated.

The first property was purchased in her name in 2004 for 236,000 pounds, the second one in 2013 in her and her son’s name for 245,000 pounds, and the third one in her and daughter’s name for 270,000 pounds.

“All these accounts are in my name and not my husband’s name and if you add up the value of the properties which was being claimed (to be in) millions is equivalent to a one-kanal house either in Karachi or Islamabad,” she said.

The lawyer hired for the purchase and transfer of funds was of her choice and not that of her husband, she said, adding that different taxes and service charges were paid to the government, all in her name. “I have been billed and paying them still,” she said.

When she stopped working in the school, she was told by her adviser that she did not need to pay tax. Later the law changed and she started filing returns, she said while explaining that she was disclosing the properties because the law had changed and now there was a requirement to disclose everything.

She stated that she had been filing income tax returns for the properties both in Pakistan and the UK and the British authorities had even refunded some of the tax money. She wondered why she had not been asked about the properties during the last 13 months.

Justice Bandial, however, observed that the court could not resolve the dispute; therefore she should approach either the tax authorities or the Supreme Judicial Council, which could give her a sympathetic hearing.

He said she should go to the FBR, adding that “being a judge we are answerable for our actions both in public and private life”. “We could have given you an in-camera hearing, but decided to hear (you) in open court.”

The court also asked government’s counsel Farogh Nasim to furnish the reply of FBR in a sealed envelope about Mrs Isa’s complaint that she had disclosed the properties in her tax returns for 2018-2019 but the FBR had still issued a notice to her.

Muneer A. Malik, the counsel for Justice Isa, praised his wife and said she was far more articulate than he himself was, as she had presented her case in a good way.

The court will resume the hearing on Friday when Mr Malik will rebut the arguments of Mr Nasim who concluded his arguments on Thursday.

Published in Dawn, June 19th, 2020
 
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i know my relative in u.k who is doctor and have million pound worth of houses and they earned this money in u.k by doing job there so such .2 million can easily be earned by anyone who does job in western countries like u.k
 
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Bhai ye sab gernail, judge, sayasatdan, zameendar, celebrities raat ko aik hi jaga sharab charas wagera ayashi karte hain. Awam ko paghal bnaya hua hai bas.

God damn...filthy rich judges .... no money trail. A local teacher has so much wealth....
 
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i know my relative in u.k who is doctor and have million pound worth of houses and they earned this money in u.k by doing job there so such .2 million can easily be earned by anyone who does job in western countries like u.k

its 700000 pounds, around 14.5 Crore Rs from 2003 to 2013. And thats only in wifes name with 1 being totally hers, 1 being in her name and her son and other being in her name and daughter. Don't exaclty know how many properties the son has or the daughter, separate to this. Or is it all, the matter is referred to FBR, they will search and find who has what and see if they are telling the truth. The case is not over.
 
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his wife may have some good income as judge is busy in paksitan and wife is busy in UK . pati atlia main patni mauj main :lol:

band karo ye bakwaas drama as we dont know 10 judges are working day night to defend fellow judge .:tdown:

its 700000 pounds, around 14.5 Crore Rs from 2003 to 2013. And thats only in wifes name with 1 being totally hers, 1 being in her name and her son and other being in her name and daughter. Don't exaclty know how many properties the son has or the daughter, separate to this. Or is it all, the matter is referred to FBR, they will search and find who has what and see if they are telling the truth. The case is not over.
what you think ? every judgement have been paid for . sometime even both sides pay and judge take side to whom pay more and have more connections .

just look at this episode how 10 judges are defending him ? this is how mafia works .
 
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