{"id":9109,"date":"2024-03-27T13:44:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T13:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrcp-web.org\/hrcpweb\/?p=9109"},"modified":"2024-03-27T13:44:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T13:44:53","slug":"hrcp-deeply-troubled-by-intelligence-agencies-continued-interference-in-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrcp-web.org\/hrcpweb\/hrcp-deeply-troubled-by-intelligence-agencies-continued-interference-in-institutions\/","title":{"rendered":"HRCP deeply troubled by intelligence agencies&#8217; continued interference in institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"width:104% !important;max-width:104% !important;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_4_5 4_5 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Press release<\/p>\n<p><strong>HRCP deeply troubled by intelligence agencies&#8217; continued interference in institutions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Lahore, 27 March 2024<\/em>. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is deeply concerned by the allegations made by six high court judges, who claim that interference and intimidation by the state\u2019s intelligence agencies have undermined the independence of the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the Supreme Judicial Council on 25 March, the judges in question allege that intelligence operatives have sought to interfere with legal proceedings, including the constitution of benches, in the Islamabad High Court. The judges\u2019 apprehension that such interference constitutes \u2018a continuing policy\u2019 on the part of the executive and that intelligence operatives have attempted to \u2018engineer judicial outcomes in politically consequential matters\u2019 is cause for serious concern. Equally troubling are revelations that judges\u2019 relatives have been abducted and tortured, allegedly by intelligence personnel as a means of intimidation, and that judges have been subjected to illegal surveillance in their own homes.<\/p>\n<p>If judges of the higher courts are subjected to such blatant interference, then by extension, it is likely that the lower courts are even more vulnerable. Such authoritarian tactics have compromised the integrity of the legal system at the cost of people&#8217;s access to justice, which is at the core of the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>HRCP has long argued that the intelligence services, which have wrought significant damage to the country&#8217;s institutions, must be brought under transparent civilian oversight by means of a new legal architecture. 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