Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar reprimanded DIGP Ghulam Mehmood Dogar on Sunday for attempting to seek an undue favour from the top judge. Taking notice of the DIG approaching his family members for a favour, the CJP had summoned DIG Dogar before the apex court's Lahore Registry. "Who advised that you can seek undue favour from my family members," CJP asked the police officer.
"How dare you approach my son-in-law to seek a favour from me? How dare you think that anyone can ask Chief Justice of Pakistan for an undue favour? I am on a path of jihad (struggle) and you are asking me for favours," he remarked. The top judge of the apex court then summoned his son-in-law Khalid Rehman to appear before the court and record his statement. The latter told the court that DIG Dogar, who is currently fighting a case against his ex-wife to seek custody of his children, asked him for a favour.
"DIG Dogar wants the name of his former wife and children to stay on the Exit Control List (ECL)," the son-in-law informed the two-member bench. The DIG then submitted an unconditional apology to the court as did the son-in-law. CJP then ordered that further case proceedings would be held in his chamber. Last year, DIG Dogar's former wife Mirjam Aberras Lahdeaho had filed a petition in the Lahore High Court seeking recovery of her sons from Dogar's custody.
In the petition, she stated she was originally a citizen of Finland and also a Canadian national and married Dogar 31 years ago. The petitioner said she had three children with him, namely elder daughter Zara, and two sons, Ghulam Qasim Dogar and Ghulam Jafar Dogar. She said the parents of Dogar, his brother, and his sister, were also Canadian nationals. Dogar had asked Aberras to send the children to Pakistan to spend the holidays with him last year. She sent all three children home and then the DIG allegedly refused to let them fly back to Canada.
Mirjiam claimed the respondent initially used delaying tactics and flatly refused to send them back after a few months, according to media reports.
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