| Lawyer Ahmed Raza Kasuri was sprayed in the face with black ink on Monday as he arrived at the Supreme Court to defend the government against petitions challenging the president’s two offices. When the hearing of the petitions began, Kasuri complained to the bench about the incident that he said occurred on Supreme Court premises. He said the attackers were shouting slogans in favour of Aitzaz Ahsan and Munir A Malik. The court said it would take notice if the incident had occurred on the premises of the SC. The court directed Kasuri to fulfil legal procedures and file a complaint in writing. Kasuri later lodged an FIR at Secretariat police station against Ahsan, Malik and Ali Ahmed Kurd, alleging that they masterminded the attack in an attempt to render him blind with a “dangerous chemical”. He alleged that the person who sprayed him was Khurshid Khan advocate, former assistant advocate general of Nort Western Frontier Province. He said his eyes remained safe because he was wearing glasses. In an earlier application shown to the press, Kasuri alleged that the attack was pre-planned by Ahsan, Malik, Kurd, Justice (r) Tariq Mahmood and others in revenge for Kasuri’s comments criticising Malik and Tariq Mahmood on a television programme, and for raising an objection in court to the appointment of Ahsan as amicus curiae. Khurshid Khan told reporters after the incident “that people who have a black heart and tongue should also have their faces painted black”, Online reported. Kasuri said lawyers were now “becoming terrorists”. |
