LHC adjourns the hearing of the petition, seeking provision of a lawyer to Hafiz Saeed in the US.
The counsel for Hafiz Saeed said that being a citizen of Pakistan it was the right of his client to be assigned a lawyer to represent him in the US court appropriately.The government’s lawyer told the court that the government hired a lawyer to represent ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha because he was a part of the government.He said that Hafiz Saeed did not hold any public office so provision of a lawyer was not possible for him.The court adjourned the hearing until June 30.A US court issued summons to Hafiz Saeed, ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha and some other officials as a result of a lawsuit filed by relatives of US nationals killed in the Mumbai attacks.
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