Judges in Pakistan SC and HC get letters containing poisonous powder as threats

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani police said on Wednesday that four judges of the Lahore High Court and five judges of the Supreme Court, including Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa, received identical letters the day after letters containing a powdery substance and threatening messages were delivered to all judges of the Islamabad High Court.

The English term “Bacillus anthracis” and a specific picture were included in the letters, which the FIR claims were meant to intimidate the judges.

The letters held the judges accountable for the issues that Pakistani citizens were facing. The bacteria that causes anthrax is called Bacillus anthracis.
According to the FIR, the letters in white envelopes were sent with the senders’ incomplete addresses. When the employees of two Islamabad High Court justices opened the packages on Tuesday, they discovered an odd substance inside. According to several media accounts, the officials subsequently complained of severe burns around their lips and eye problems.
The letters were turned over to the counterterrorism department for an inquiry, according to Lahore deputy police chief Ali Nasir Rizvi, and they were also being examined by other courts.
These correspondences emerged subsequent to the Supreme Court’s suo motu cognizance of six Islamabad High Court judges’ charges that the Pakistani spy agency ISI was meddling in legal matters and employing coercive measures, including clandestine monitoring, kidnapping, and torture of their relatives, to sway the resolution of cases that held significance for the agency.