LONDON (INP): Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers have attacked vehicle of former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Qazi Faez Isa and his wife Sarina in London, media reports said on Wednesday.
Dozens of PTI supporters had gathered at Chancery Lane to stage a protest against Isa, who was attending a prestigious event held at the Middle Temple, after relinquishing charge as the country’s top judge.
Qazi Isa was going to attend the ceremony for constituting benches at the Middle Temple.
The PTI supporters, led by former prime minister Imran Khan’s ex-special assistant Sayed Zulfi Bukhari and former member of National Assembly (MNA) Maleeka Bokhari, Azhar Mashwani and others staged the demonstration to condemn The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple for elevating ex-CJP Isa as a Callee and hosting him at the dinner.
The PTI activists tried to stop the ex-CJP’s car belonging to Pakistan High Commission in London and also attempted to smash its windowpanes. The PTI workers chanted slogans after seeing Qazi Isa’s car and even ran along it.
A significant police presence secured the venue’s entrance as numerous protestors holding placards shouted slogans denouncing the ex-CJP.
Though a police escort was travelling with Qazi Isa’s car, the PTI workers still tried to block the car’s path.
While addressing the crowd, Bukhari reiterated the PTI’s claims that the former top judge had targeted the Imran Khan-founded party.
The demonstration was joined by British lawyer Barrister Mark McDonald, who also criticised the Middle Temple’s invitation to the former chief justice, asserting it should not occur again.
Nowadays Qazi Faez Isa is in London to attend an event to constitute Middle Temple benches.
The Middle Temple is one of four historic and esteemed legal institutions known as the Inns of Court in London. These institutions provide training to law students and grant licences for entry into the legal profession.
The former chief justice became the first Pakistani judge to get elected as a bencher and be invited to the Middle Temple, a prestigious legal institution in the United Kingdom (UK).