{"id":4146,"date":"2025-06-26T08:56:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T03:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=4146"},"modified":"2025-06-26T07:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T02:35:09","slug":"sc-issues-notices-on-fawad-chaudhrys-plea-to-consolidate-may-9-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/06\/26\/sc-issues-notices-on-fawad-chaudhrys-plea-to-consolidate-may-9-cases","title":{"rendered":"SC Issues Notices on Fawad Chaudhry\u2019s Plea to Consolidate May 9 Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"82\" data-end=\"91\"><strong>ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday issued notices to all relevant parties in a petition filed by former federal minister Fawad Chaudhry, seeking to club together 35 separate cases related to the May 9 protests.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"324\" data-end=\"522\">A two-member bench headed by Justice Shahid Waheed heard the plea and adjourned the hearing until July 1.<br data-start=\"429\" data-end=\"432\" \/>The court directed all concerned stakeholders to submit responses before the next hearing.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"524\" data-end=\"557\"><strong data-start=\"524\" data-end=\"557\">Background of the May 9 Cases<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"559\" data-end=\"832\">The petition revolves around the aftermath of former Prime Minister Imran Khan\u2019s arrest by NAB on May 9, 2023, in the Al-Qadir Trust case.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"559\" data-end=\"832\">The arrest triggered widespread violent protests across the country, with demonstrators targeting key military and government sites.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"834\" data-end=\"1110\">Major incidents included attacks on the Corps Commander\u2019s residence in Lahore, the airbase in Mianwali, and a protest outside the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"834\" data-end=\"1110\">These events prompted the government to file multiple FIRs under anti-terrorism and public order laws.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1112\" data-end=\"1147\"><strong data-start=\"1112\" data-end=\"1147\">Fawad Chaudhry\u2019s Legal Position<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1149\" data-end=\"1374\">Fawad Chaudhry, a senior PTI leader at the time, is named in 35 different FIRs filed in various cities.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1149\" data-end=\"1374\">His legal team argues that handling these cases separately would result in procedural delays and legal inconsistencies.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1376\" data-end=\"1525\">The SC&#8217;s decision to seek responses from all parties may set a precedent for handling politically sensitive multi-jurisdictional cases in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday issued notices to all relevant parties in a petition filed by former federal minister Fawad Chaudhry, seeking to club together 35 separate cases related to the May 9 protests. A two-member bench headed by Justice Shahid Waheed heard the plea and adjourned the hearing until July 1.The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1998,1999,1442],"class_list":["post-4146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-fawadchaudhry","tag-may9protests","tag-supremecourt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4148,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions\/4148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}