KARACHI: The Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar will constitute a larger bench to look into the matter pertaining to May 12, 2007, violence which claimed many lives in Karachi.
The case was forwarded to the Sindh High Court forwarded the case to the CJP on Wednesday.
The court has appointed Faisal Siddiqui and Shahab Sirki as judicial assistants, while the CJP will constitute a larger bench to further probe into the case.
Applicant Iqbal Kazmi had requested the court to completely investigate the May 12 incident of terror.
In the plea, former president Pervez Musharraf, MQM founder and former Sindh home ministry advisor Waseem Akhtar were also named in the case.
In May 2018, Justice Nisar had summoned the case file of May 12, 2007, carnage in Karachi which claimed the lives of over two dozen people injured scores after a major portion of Shahrah-e-Faisal turned into a battlefield as opposing political groups clashed with one another after the arrival of former chief justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to Karachi.
The former CJP had remained confined to the lounge of the airport throughout the day and returned to Islamabad without addressing a lawyers’ convention on the premises of the Sindh High Court.
