PAKISTAN Annual bar event: Judiciary the last citadel of society

ABBOTTABAD: If other organs of society fail to deliver, the burden of responsibility would squarely fall on the judiciary, which is unfair

This was stated by Adviser to Prime Minister on Aviation and former governor Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Sardar Mehtab Ahmed while addressing lawyers during an annual event of the Abbottabad District Bar Association late on Saturday.

“If they (institutions) fail to deliver as they are supposed to, the judiciary would be further burdened,” Ahmed said, adding that lawyers have a key role to play in helping the country achieve its objective but for this, they would have to take responsibility for upholding the supremacy of constitution and law.

Terming judiciary as the last citadel of society, he said that all organs of society would have to play their respective roles while leaving few responsibilities on the judiciary.

He said that Pakistan had the potential of leading the Islamic world but before that, it has to achieve the desired standards.

About developments in Hazara division, he said that the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was expected to visit Abbottabad soon to announce several developmental projects.

He also promised to provide an ambulance van, library and dispensary for the lawyers of Abbottabad.

Meanwhile, Peshawar High Court’s Justice Qazi Ghazanfar Khan said that after the creation of Pakistan, the only institution which maintained the identity of the state was the judiciary.

Although the bar and the bench were the two wheels of the judicial system, he lamented that due to the lack of interest by lawyers, the litigation process was unduly prolonged, which was not in the interest of judiciary or the litigants.

Source: The Express Tribune