The Lahore High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition of a lawyer challenging detention of Jamatud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. The court heard the petition of Sarfraz Hussain advocate as objection case and upheld an objection put by the registrar office on its maintainability. The office had stated that the petitioner had not furnished the impugned notification of Saeed's detention.
On the court order advocate A.K Dogar appeared before the court on behalf of the petitioner stated that a petition would be filed on behalf of Hafiz Saeed. Advocate Safraz Hussain contended that Hafiz Saeed was detained in light of United Nations' resolution of 2008. The lawyer stated that the JuD chief has been detained for keeping the Kashmir issue alive.
The petitioner pleaded that the detention of Saeed was liable to be declared void as there was no nexus with anti terrorism laws as the liberty of a citizen could not be curtail at the behest of foreign mission. He asked the court to get the JuD chief recovered from the alleged illegal and improper detention and set him at liberty. The government kept Hafiz Saeed and four other members of his organization under house arrest for a period of three months.
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