Aitzaz presents UN report on presidential immunity

Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan said the United Nations (UN), in one of its reports, had granted immunity to heads of state from prosecution in a foreign country, a private TV channel reported. The hearing of the contempt of court case against Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani resumed here on Thursday. Ahsan also presented the UN report before the Supreme Court’s seven-judge bench, headed by Justice Nasirul Mulk, to support his argument. He further said that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) had also stopped courts from trying heads of state in the past. Concluding his arguments on presidential immunity, Ahsan said he would address the charge levelled against the PM and would prove to the bench that PM Gilani did not commit contempt of court.