Nehal Hashmi pictured outside the Supreme Court in Islamabad here on Monday, March 12, 2018. Photo: Geo News

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nehal Hashmi on Monday appeared before the Supreme Court for the hearing of a contempt hearing against him. 

Hashmi, a former senator, was jailed for a month and disqualified for five years by the apex court on February 1 over his contemptuous remarks made last year.

In the previous hearing of the case on Wednesday, Hashmi was issued another contempt of court notice by the apex court.  A video of Hashmi's post-prison-release media talk was played, in which a visibly charged Hashmi had said he had been made a victim of revenge for standing by PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif.

SC issues another contempt of court notice to Nehal Hashmi

PML-N leader has already been disqualified for five years and faced month in prison in contempt case

After initially denying to have made the statements, the PML-N leader had said he was ashamed. Chief Justice Main Saqib Nisar had termed regrettable the remarks uttered by Hashmi for judges following his release from Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi, on February 28.

The court had also issued notices to vice-chairmen of all the bar councils to submit their response to the court's plan to cancel Hashmi's licence to practice law. Moreover, during the hearing, Pakistan Bar Council Vice-Chairman Kamran Murtaza had excused himself from representing Hashmi in the case. 

Hashmi had been summoned today after a chief justice-led three-member bench took up his plea on Tuesday against his disqualification.

In May last year during the height of the Panama Papers case against Nawaz, Hashmi, in a speech in Karachi, had threatened the 'enemies of the prime minister'.