Pakistan: Wife of SC judge files petition against Minister Fawad Chaudhry

Sarina Isa, wife of Supreme Court judge Qazi Faez Isa, referred to a tweet by Fawad Chaudhry on March 19 in which he challenged the judge to resign and contest elections to gauge his popularity.

The wife of a Supreme Court judge in Pakistan filed a petition in the apex court on Monday to initiate contempt of court proceedings against Minister Fawad Chaudhry over a "highly offensive" tweet against her husband. Sarina Isa, wife of Supreme Court judge Qazi Faez Isa, referred to a tweet by Chaudhry on March 19 in which he challenged the judge to resign and contest elections to gauge his popularity. “Listening to the speeches of an under trial judge (Justice Isa) of the Supreme Court for a week. If [I] answer, then lectures will start [ranging from] ‘we are saddened to (hear this) to we have been insulted’,” Chaudhry had said in the tweet.