The lawyer community has raised a finger at the constitution of benches formed by the chief justice of Pakistan, wondering why the suo motu notices have always been taken against the weak civil governments and not against some powerful general, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.
The legal fraternity expressed these views during the convention of representatives of lawyers’ bodies held under the aegis of Balochistan Bar Council in Quetta on Saturday.
Addressing the convention, Barrister Salahuddin objected why the chief justice of Pakistan always sends sensitive cases to specific judges. He said that the current crisis has engulfed the whole country. He observed that the judicial crisis is even greater than the issue of elections. He urged to take out judiciary from current crisis.
He said that given the current situation, the CJP should form a larger bench. There must be some reason that the top judge did not form the larger bench.
Imam Rizvi Advocate wondered why no suo motu notices have ever been taken against some general, rather only weak civil governments fall prey to them.
He said that the Supreme Court calls upon everyone to create unity, while it does not create unity in its amidst.
He also said that it was beyond him why the chief justice did not form a larger bench to hear the poll case. If the larger bench was formed, there would have been no problem, he added.
IHCBA Vice Chairman Adil Aziz observed that the current government and the Supreme Court wants to bequeath to us such judiciary in which no one will repose trust.
He exhorted to revive public and lawyers’ trust in the apex court.
He said if someone does not want to bring his case in front of a judge, then why on earth, the judge must hear his case.
He said that they are with lawyer community and lawyers of Islamabad, Haroon Rashid and others fully support the decisions of their leadership.
SHCBA Vice Chairman Arif Abbasi also endorsed Aziz’s point of view, saying if a person does not want a judge to hear his case, the judge should recuse himself from hearing. He expressed same views that the CJP should have formed a larger bench for the poll case.
He said that 73% political cases are being sent to a specific bench.
Balochistan Bar Council’s Saleem Lashari Advocate was of the view that the current crisis emerged out of the Supreme Court ruling. If the apex court did not trample the constitution, then the crisis would not have emerged.
He said that the chief justice should have kept himself aloof from this matter.
Senator Kamran Murtaza said that nobody acts upon the Constitution of Pakistan. He said that parliament has remained failed to solve country’s problems.
He rued that nowhere in the world the judges of Supreme Court have been divided except in Pakistan.
Reporter Isa Tareen