Pakistan Judge Former ISI chief Durrani case: Pakistan judge rescues himself without citing reason
Islamabad: An Islamabad High Court (IHC) judge, Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, has recused himself from further hearing a petition filed by former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) director general Lt Gen (retd) Asad Durrani by seeking removal of his name from the Exit Control List (ECL), media reports said.
Kayani even said that he was aware of the whole background of the case and was also close to penning the verdict, but was forwarding the case to IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah.
"It is unfortunate, but there are reasons I don’t want to share,” he said while explaining to the court his withdrawal from the case as quoted by The Express Tribune.
He said, “The [IHC] chief justice will form a new bench to hear the case.”
The former spy chief landed in trouble after co-authoring a book titled ‘The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace’ with India’s former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) chief Amarjit Singh Dulat in 2018, the newspaper reported.
Following the publication of the book, the Military Intelligence Directorate recommended the interior ministry to place Durrani’s name on the no-fly list.
In May 2018, the ministry issued a notification about putting the former ISI chief’s name on the ECL and said that Durrani is “involved in an ongoing inquiry”, thus he could not leave the country, The Express Tribune reported.
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