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| UN should have also heard JuD: LHC |
| 2009-05-10 |
| [The News (Pak)] A full bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC), hearing a habeas corpus petition against the detention of Jamaat-ud-Daawa chief Hafiz Saeed and other leaders, on Friday observed that the United Nations should consider the rights of people as the JuD was an organisation established in the name of human rights. The United Nations should have afforded an opportunity of hearing to the JuD leaders before imposing restrictions on them, observed the bench, headed by Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry. Justice Hasnat Ahmad Khan and Justice Zubda-tul-Hussain were the other members of the three-member bench. The bench adjourned proceedings as arguments of the petitioner's counsel would continue on May 12. Earlier, AK Dogar in his arguments said the UN had a biased policy towards the Muslim countries and violated its own principles, as had happened in the case of the JuD. He repeated his contention that the UN in its resolutions did not seek detention of the JuD leaders and even the ban on their travel violated Article 15 of the Constitution. |
| Posted by:Fred |