Pak SC, HC judges receive threat letters with toxic powder – Times of India

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani police reported Wednesday {that a} day after letters containing a powdery substance and threatening messages had been delivered to all judges of Islamabad excessive courtroom, comparable letters had been obtained by 4 judges of Lahore HC and 5 of Supreme Court docket, together with Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa.In keeping with the FIR, the letters included a selected photograph and the English phrase “Bacillus Anthracis”, apparently supposed to threaten the judges.The letters accused the judges of being answerable for issues confronted by the folks of Pakistan. Bacillus anthracis is the bacterium that causes anthrax.The letters in white envelopes had been delivered with incomplete addresses of the senders, acknowledged the FIR. Upon opening the envelopes on Tuesday, the workers of two Islamabad HC judges discovered a suspicious powder. Some media experiences counsel that the officers later skilled excessive irritation of their eyes and burns round their lips.Lahore deputy police chief Ali Nasir Rizvi stated the letters had been handed over to the counter-terrorism division for investigation and different courts had been additionally being checked.These letters surfaced after Supreme Court docket took suo motu cognizance of six Islamabad HC judges’ accusation that Pakistani spy company ISI was interfering in judicial affairs and utilizing intimidating ways equivalent to secret surveillance, abduction, and torture of their members of the family to affect the end result of instances of curiosity to the organisation.