Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani, is evidently the third Prime Minister who was given contempt of court notice. Before him Mohtarmah Shaheed Benazir Bhutto and her mother Mrs. Nusrat Bhutto, were also given the notice of contempt.

Earlier, Ahsan, the prime minister’s counsel, had said in an interview on Wednesday that going by Article 248 of the Constitution (immunity for a sitting head of state), the prime minister had not committed contempt of court.

“The court wanted some clarifications and the prime minister decided to attend himself. This is something the court and media should appreciate,”Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters.