ISLAMABAD: pakistani police reported on Wednesday that a day after letters containing a powdery substance and threatening messages were delivered to all judges of the Islamabad high court, four Islamabad judges received similar letters. Lahore HC and five from the Supreme Court, including Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa.
According to the FIR, the letters included a private photograph and the English word “Bacillus Anthracis”, apparently intended to threaten the judges. The letters accused the judges of being responsible for the problems facing the people of Pakistan. Bacillus anthracis is the bacteria that causes anthrax.
The letters in white envelopes were delivered with incomplete sender addresses, the FIR stated. Opening the envelopes on Tuesday, the staff of two Islamabad HC The judges found a suspicious powder. Some media reports suggest that the officials subsequently experienced extreme eye irritation and burns around their lips.
Lahore deputy police chief Ali Nasir Rizvi said the letters were handed over to the anti-terrorism department for investigation and other courts were also being reviewed.
These letters emerged after the Supreme Court took suo motu cognizance of the allegation by six judges of the Islamabad HC that the Pakistani spy agency ISI was interfering in judicial matters and using intimidation tactics such as secret surveillance, kidnapping and torture of their family members to influence the outcome of cases of interest to the organisation.