The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday removed objections from a plea filed by the brother-in-law of Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden and adjourned the hearing of the case until today (Thursday).
Zakarya Ahmed Abdulfattah, brother of Osama’s youngest widow Amal Abdulfattah, filed a petition in the IHC, seeking quashing of a criminal case filed against his sister and her children. But the IHC office raised some objections about maintainability of the petition, contending that the petitioner was not personally aggrieved. Chief Justice Iqbal Hameedur Rehman held the hearing of the petition and removed the objections raised about maintainability of the plea. Petitioner’s counsel Amir Khalil submitted in court that although his client was not personally aggrieved, some petitions of the same nature were admitted by the court. He requested the court to remove all objections.
Osama’s brother-in-law had made the ISI, interior and defence secretaries as respondents. He challenged the registration of a criminal case filed against her sister under sections 13 and 14 of the Foreign Act and sections 212 and 419 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and also expressed reservations over the trial of his sister by civil courts.
