IHC discharges intra-court appeal against army chief extension

ISLAMABAD: A division bench of the Islamabad High Court on Thursday discharged an intra-court appeal regarding extension granted to the Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani.

The bench comprising Justice Shaukat Siddiqui and Justice Anwari Kasi discharged the plea observing that the applicant had only requested that amenities, the top general was enjoying, be withdrawn.

Justice Siddiqui remarked that the applicant didn’t seek that the general be inquired as in which authority he was holding the post of army chief.

Colonel (retd) Inamur Rahim, the applicant, prayed the court to allow him to make changes in his plea. However, the bench rejected his request, observing that, the petition, which had been discharged, could not be amended.


The court had earlier rejected his plea against the extension granted to the army chief. He had stated in the petition that the army chief could not remain in uniform after attaining the age 60 years as per the Army Act.