RAWALPINDI: Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui onSaturday has lashed out against his own institution.
He stated that the judiciary is 50 per cent responsible for the currentsituation of the country.
“The court is 50 per cent responsible for the situation of the countrytoday while institutions are responsible for the other 50 per cent,”Justice Siddiqui remarked while addressing the Rawalpindi Bar Association.
Justice Siddiqui said, “For a while now I have been wanting to presentmyself before the bar for accountability. I wanted to do that because onlymy bar can hold me accountable and there have been no corruption chargesagainst me to date.”
“Whenever I pass a judgment in a crucial case, a group starts a campaignclaiming that there are corruption references ongoing against me,” he added.
“However, I am clean and thus requested the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC)to conduct an open trial against me and invite lawyers to see if there isany truth in the corruption allegations. If any corruption charges areproven then I will resign,” Justice Siddiqui continued.
Further, he alleged, “I was told that if I pass judgments on theirdirectives then the references against me will be withdrawn.”