Islamabad:
Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI) leaders met with Chief Justice of Pakistan Yahya Afridi Friday to convey that the party did to refrain from “forensic gasket”.
In addition, the seven-member PTI delegation called for the Supreme Court to “put your house in order” and secure the rule of law and the constitution in the country and claimed that the legal system had been reduced to a “criminal instrument” under his see, and that was his responsibility To fix it.
The PTI delegation, which consists of the National Assembly’s opposition leader Omar Ayub, Senates opposition leader Shibli Faraz, PTI chairman Barrister Goahr, Secretary General Salman Akram Raja, Senator Ali Zafar, MNA Sardar Latif Khosa and the famous lawyer Dr. Babar Awan, poured out their hearts before the Chief Justice for the “collected deteriorated situation” of the rule of law and the constitution in the country.
“Put your house in order,” Khosa Chief Justice asked while talking at a press conference after the meeting. “Five judges from the Supreme Court have repeatedly written that the 26th change should be decided first, and until then there should be no legal gasket.”
Khosa said that “We used the word court’s packing,” the addition of legal gasket – the practice of increasing the number of seats in a court to admit that judges are likely to promote one’s own goals or make decisions in one’s favors – happens and the next generations will suffer the consequences of it.
Khosa said PTI legislators told Chief Justice that he had to put his house in order, adding what an ordinary man could expect from the judiciary, where the judges of a Supreme Court ran from the pillar to post search. He urged Chief Justice to refrain from court packing without first deciding the petitions in connection with 26. Constitutional amendment.
During the press conference, Omar Ayub revealed that Chief Justice had sent PTI founder Imran Khan’s letter on May 9 and November 26 to the constitutional bench and said “We said we do not recognize 26. Constitutional amendment”. He said commissions should examine the events in accordance with Khan’s letters.
Without specifying much mentioned Ayub specifically, he took permission from Khan Threice in the presence of other party leaders to hold a meeting with Chief Justice. He added that Khan had instructed the party’s leaders to raise the issue of military courts trying civilians with Chief Justice, which the party did.
“The rule of law is not only crucial, but associated with political and economic progress,” Ayub said Chief Justice, adding that party leaders and workers had been continuously booked in dozens of cases and continuously been harassed. “Protection of judiciary is your responsibility and when you are Chief Justice, you must leave a legacy of taking steps to the rule of law and the constitution,” Ayub said.
He said a dossier had already been provided to Chief Justice regarding the overall deteriorating situation of the rule of law, the role of agencies, the legal system Chief Justice.
Ayub said the questions of Imran and his spouse Bushra Bibi’s court come from, lack of access to PTI leaders, lawyers and relatives of the couple, and the treatment was complied with the former prime minister of prison. He mentioned that the status of other imprisoned PTI leaders and workers, missed persons and abducted party support were also discussed with Chief Justice Afridi.
Barrister Gohar said the delegation considered him that PTI had been exposed to “fascism in the last few years”. He said Chief Justice had shared the agenda of the National Legal Committee (NJPMC) meeting and sought PTI’s proposal for it, adding that PTI would soon submit his proposals.
The PTI chairman said Chief Justice was informed in detail about how Khan and his wife were treated unfairly when their cases were not established for hearing on time, Khan was sometimes held in isolation, authorities deprived him of books and training machine he did not get allowed to talk to his children and meet his wife.
“All this is for us and most of it is done in Punjab,” Goohar said. “No one takes yours [CJ] The court order seriously, “Gohar told Chief Justice, adding that the orders regarding the notification of PTI’s MNAs or Senate Elections among others were not completed.
He said “enforced the disappearance” of PTI -mna’s and how their families were treated was also brought into Chief Justice’s notice. Gohar also said that Chief Justice assured PTI that he would take steps to find out solutions to the questions raised by the delegation.
Salman Akram Raja said the PTI delegation told Chief Justice that there is practically no constitution or law in the country. While the PTI General Secretary referred to routine announcements of Deputy Commissioners who introduced section 144, said all the constitutional rights of the people were suspended with such messages.
“If the judiciary continues to allow it, it becomes an accomplice of it all,” Raja said, adding that it was the responsibility of the judiciary to issue such directions that secured the rule of law and the constitution in the country.
“It should not happen that a man is booked in 100 cases across the country if he is talking about something,” he said, adding that a man should not be forced to run from one court to another, seek bail and Still getting arrested because he was booked in four other cases in the meantime.
“At this point, the entire justice system has been transformed into a criminal instrument,” Raja told Chief Justice, saying it was the responsibility of the judiciary not only to stop it, but keep the persons in question for booking a man in 100 cases, and provide protection to that citizen.
“Right now,” he said, “The justice system is openly used as an instrument, and if the judiciary does not intervene, the population of Pakistan will be forced to take the cases in their hands.”
Raja said PTI did not get the kind of relief it should have received from the courts. He told the media persons that PTI had clearly told Chief Justice that “it imposed on him to practically implement the rule of law and the constitution in the country”.
Raja reiterated that PTI had an objection to the content, as well as the 26th change was adopted. He said it was clear to all how parliamentarians were “abducted” to adopt the amendment.
“The whole situation is not hidden from anyone; it’s not hidden from Chief Justice,” Raja said, adding that the whole situation was elaborated in detail before Chief Justice and PTi would now see how he took action in the coming days.
SC’s statement
Meanwhile, shortly after PTI Leaders’ press conference, the Supreme Court issued a press release regarding Chief Justice’s meeting with the PTI delegation. “As part of his efforts to take wider stakeholders’ consultation on the reform agenda,” said the SC statement, CJP invited the opposition leadership in parliament and met the PTI management in his residence.
The awards said Chief Justice welcomed the PTI delegation and assessed them at the planned meeting of NJPMC. It added that Chief Justice stated that he met with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and asked him to give the government’s input into the reforms agenda. He said the prime minister was very positive and insured full support for policy formulation and implementation process.
Chief Justice Afridi said that the Law and Justice Commission had received input from various bars in the country, feedback from citizens as well as the district service, adding that input from the registrators of the high courts and provincial court academies is soon expected.
He said the prime minister was concerned about tax cases pending on different judicial forums before adding that he assured the prime minister that the rapid disposal of tax cases and reducing the overall dependence in the Supreme Court was his high priority. “The judicial reform was to be a minimum joint national agenda, and the same should have a top species support,” Chief Justice suggested to the PTI delegation.
The memo said that Ayub highlighted various questions that the imprisoned PTI founder, other leaders and workers in the party, and complained that opposition management cases were determined at the same time at the same time, so that appearance before courts become impossible, lawyers defense of cases of party leadership and workers were harassed, the prison authorities did not comply -Advokater and their right to collection and expression were suppressed.
Ayub also said that the country’s financial stability hung over the rule of law and economic recovery was only possible if the judiciary claimed itself, and the performer was held accountable, it said, adding that other participants also expressed similar views and expressed their concerns about worsening state of law and order.
However, the declaration said they recognized the fact that the judiciary needed reformation and relief to the people was possible if the district’s judiciary proactively treated its dependence. It maintained that PTI leader Ali Zafar requested that they need time to respond to the political proposals shared by the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan.
Chief Justice noted that they had given valuable proposals to improve the criminal system and civilian exemption. In addition, the note said they indicated that further recommendations would be shared over time.
In addition to Ayub, it said, Shibli Faraz, opposition leader in the Senate, Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, Barrister Ali Zafar, Barrister Salman Akram Raja, Sardar Muhammad Latif Khosa, DR Babar Awan also attended the meeting.
Supreme Court Registrator Muhammad Salim Khan and the Law and Justice Commission for Pakistan’s secretary Tanzeela Sabahat helped Chief Justice. The meeting lasted for two hours.