Opportunity by the Honorable Court

One of the top lawyers of the country Advocate Ahmad said on Monday that he had been receiving threats from the government……….
He said that on Friday after midnight, dozens of armed BUREAU officials surrounded his house and kidnapped him without showing him any warrants while harassing his whole family. Later, it was revealed that the BUREAU chairman had himself filed a reference before the BUREAU court in which Mr. Ahmed’s name was deliberately and wrongly included. He said ‘before’ Fasih Bokhari filed the reference against him, no official of BUREAU had even contacted him or sent him any notice or even bothered to take his statement regarding the allegations.

The question, he says, is that if the reference was genuine, and if his arrest was so needed to conduct an investigation, why no investigation was done and why BUREAU told the BUREAU court next morning that it no longer needed his custody/remand.

Most surprisingly, Mr. Ahmed said, the moment he was taken to the BUREAU centre after midnight, a representative of a particular channel was present inside the BUREAU office. He was locked up in a room, where the channel representative kept on making video and started showing it on its channel with an angle to defame and humiliate him.

Mr. Ahmed, advocate, was represented in the High Court by Sindh High Court Bar Association’s President Mr. Anwar; Siddiq Mirza, Advocate Supreme Court; Dr Amjad Bokhari, Advocate Supreme Court; Shahab Sarki, General Secretary High Court Bar Association, and other prominent lawyers.

Even after his arrest, the BUREAU did not conduct any investigation. The BUREAU people, directly reporting to Islamabad on Friday night, did not bother to take any written statement from him. And what is surprising is that on that very night, the BUREAU officials told Mr. that they would not be seeking his further custody/remand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRyTVBnJ310

After the petitioner’s arguments, despite repeated insistence of the court, the BUREAU prosecutor failed to show from the reference any specific allegation against Mr. Ahmed, any of his wrongdoings or that any wrongdoing was done when he was director or any document to show his involvement.
The court commented that arresting a respected lawyer without any evidence might put the investigation officer and relevant officials of the BUREAU in trouble. The court further commented that life and reputation of citizens is not child’s play. Though the court has granted the bail application, it has not yet passed a detailed order which is expected today.