ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday gave Privatisation Minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Daniyal Aziz 10 days to arrange for a lawyer to defend him a contempt of court case against him.

Aziz had been issued a notice for contempt of court for his anti-judiciary remarks. The notice did not specify which comments had prompted the action.

He informed the court that he was unaware of why he had been summoned, at which Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed responded that nothing inappropriate will happen in the case and all details will soon come forward.

The hearing was adjourned until Feb.19 after Aziz was given time to arrange for his lawyer.

Following last year’s Panama judgment in which Nawaz Sharif was ousted as the prime minister, members of the ruling party, including Aziz — on a number of occasions — have launched verbal attack on the judiciary, accusing it of having different standards for the former premier than for his opponents.

Another PML-N leader Talal Chaudhry, who appeared before the court on Tuesday in connection with a similar contempt of court notice was given one week to hire a lawyer.

Before that the apex court had sentenced PML-N Senator Nehal Hashmi to month and unseated him as the member of the upper house of Parliament. He had delivered a fiery speech threatening the judges.

The PML-N has criticised issuance of notices by the Supreme Court only to its leaders while ignoring other politicians, who have been passing disgraceful remarks against the judiciary.