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It has reached the highest courts of Pakistan with thirteen judges, including the Chief Justice of the country, receiving letters allegedly laced with anthrax...
When the letters were delivered to the Islamabad HC on Tuesday, the police deputed to the high court registered a case under the Anti-Terrorism Act..
A separate FIR regarding the letters sent to the apex court was registered at the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) police station on the complaint of Mohammad Iqbal Khan, the in-charge of the SCs Receipt and Issue Department...
Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Aamer Farooq, who was hearing the case, summoned the Islamabad police regarding the letters..
The poisonous letters were received a fortnight after six of the eight judges on the Islamabad High Court wrote a letter on 25 March to the Supreme Judicial Council alleging that there had been attempts to intimidate judges by kidnapping and torturing their relatives and by secretly monitoring them in their homes...
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