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ISLAMABAD: Eight members of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) on Saturday strongly condemned the government’s “blatant, wilful and deliberate violation” of the Supreme Court’s (SC) Aug 18 order for transferring PTI founder Imran Khan to Shifa International Hospital.
“The order of the SC was clear, unequivocal and binding yet the executive has chosen to disregard it and has acted in direct defiance of the court’s directions and violated the same,” said a statement issued by the members.
The signatories included PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja, Abid Shahid Zuberi, Muhammad Maqsood Buttar, Shafqat Mehmood Chauhan, Munir Ahmed Kakar, Abdul Sattar Khan, Salahuddin Ahmed and Qazi Muhammad Arshad.
“The executive has no authority to defy the directions and orders of the SC,” the statement said.
