Former CJP Isa prone to face PTI protest at Center Temple in London

Former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa looks on in this picture released on September 22, 2023. — X/@QAU_Official
Former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa seems to be on on this image launched on September 22, 2023. — X/@QAU_Official 
  • PTI UK confirms protest demo in opposition to Isa’s participation in dinner.
  • Ex-CJP to provide brief speech to benchers, members: Center Temple.
  • Former PTI ministers, advisers to additionally attend the London protest. 

LONDON: Former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa, the primary Pakistani choose to be invited to a dinner by The Honourable Society of the Center Temple on Tuesday, is prone to face protest by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) UK chapter.

Jahanzeb Khan, former senior vice chairman of PTI UK, and Sahibzada Jahangir, occasion founder Imran Khan’s good friend and former adviser confirmed to Geo Information {that a} demonstration has been known as on the Center Temple in Central London to protest ex-CJP Isa’s participation and condemn the society for inviting him and elevating him within the Temple.

Jahanzeb mentioned that former minister ministers and advisers Zulfi Bukhari, Maleeka Bokhari and Shehryar Afridi may also attend the demonstration.

In the meantime, the Center Temple confirmed that it has invited former CJP Isa for the bench name the place the ceremony is being held for the benchers and members of the Inn to name elected members to the Bench.

The Callees embody Isa, Professor Adrian Briggs, Isabel Hitching KC and Nikki Singla KC. They are going to be known as to the bench earlier than dinner and requested to take their place on the excessive desk.

Isa will give a brief speech to the benchers and members, the Center Temple confirmed.

The previous chief justice turned the primary Pakistani choose to get elected as a bencher on the Center Temple, a prestigious authorized establishment in the UK (UK).

Isa, who retired as the highest choose of Pakistan on October 25, arrived in London to attend the ceremony in his honour.

He studied regulation on the Center Temple and his father, Qazi Isa, was additionally a graduate of the Center Temple.

He had written to the administration of the Center Temple stating that he might solely attend the occasion after his retirement on October 25, prompting the ceremony to be rescheduled for October 29.

The Center Temple is one among 4 historic and esteemed authorized establishments often known as the Inns of Court docket in London. These establishments present coaching to regulation college students and grant licences for entry into the authorized occupation.

The opposite three Inns of Court docket are Grey’s Inn, Lincoln’s Inn and Interior Temple.

Based within the 14th century, the Center Temple has held a big place on the coronary heart of the British authorized system for hundreds of years.

The distinguished folks, who later rose as international statesmen, premiers, presidents, chief justices, monarchs, chief ministers, governors and mayors and studied on the prestigious Center Temple throughout the previous few centuries are: former British premiers John Main, Boris Johnson and David Cameron; Hong Kong’s first chief justice of the Court docket of Last Attraction Andrew Li; Princess of Wales Girl Diana; Hong Kong’s Choose of Last Attraction Kemal Bokhary; Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew and his spouse Kwa Choo; British Supreme Court docket judges Simon Brown, Anthony Clarke and Mark Saville; Irish Excessive Court docket choose Sir Donnell Deeny; Thailand’s former premiers, Sanya Dharmasakti, Pote Sarasin, and Phraya Manopakorn; ex-chief justice Allahabad Excessive Court docket, John Edge, King Edward VII, King Edward VIII, Indian Viceroy; and Rufus Daniel Isaacs amongst others.

Aside from the Center Temple, the opposite three Inns of Court docket (Grey’s Inn, Lincoln’s Inn and Interior Temple) have additionally churned out some magnificent personalities like Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Allama Iqbal, former president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Indian premier Jawaharlal Nehru, former Pakistani president Wasim Sajjad, former British prime ministers Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair; former Indian president Shankar Dayal Sharma, former Pakistani Supreme Court docket choose Dorab Patel, Ex-chief justice Lahore Excessive Court docket and Allama Iqbal’s son Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal, former Indian Union Minister of Defence Krishna Menon and Bhimrao Ambedkar, the previous Indian regulation minister and the person who headed the committee drafting the structure of India.