After IHC, SC and LHC judges including CJP also receive 'threatening' letters

ISLAMABAD, (NNI): After reports of multiple judges of the Lahore and Islamabad high courts receiving suspicious letters containing a powdered substance, it has emerged that five judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan Wednesday also received threatening letters containing a suspicious powder.

Among those who received threatening letters are Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa, Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, Justice Aminuddin Khan. Justice Jamal Mandokhel and Justice Athar Minallah.

Moreover, it has been reported that Justice Shahid Waheed received the letter at the Lahore registry.

The advocate general has also confirmed that the justices of the Supreme Court have received the letters today.

The report stated that all the letters were sent on April 1 in which suspicious powder was found.

All suspicious letters were handed over to the CTD for investigation.

Earlier in the day, DIG (Operations) Shahzad Bukhari told the Islamabad High Court that four Supreme Court judges had also received suspicious letters.

He said this during the hearing of appeals challenging the cipher case verdict against PTI's Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi. IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq had told the advocate general to summon the capital police chief and SSP (operations).

Shahzad Bukhari and Counter-Terrorism Department Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Humayun Hamza appeared in court. "The recovered chemical has been sent for inspection, and a chemical report will be received in three to four days," he said.

The court asked where these letters had been posted from. The DIG said the seal on the envelope was illegible, and also informed the court that today, four judges of the Lahore High Court also received letters with the same name.

The CTD personnel arrested an employee of a private courier company who delivered the letters at the LHC and sent the powder extracted from the letters for forensic analysis.

After the Islamabad High Court (IHC), the Lahore High Court (LHC) judges also received the same letters having threatening signs and suspicious powder inside.

According to the report, the LHC administration received the posted suspicious letters in the names of 4 judges who were included in the LHC Administrative Committee.

The sources said when the staff opened these letters, there was powder and a threatening sign inside.