Pakistan has been in the news in recent times for all the wrong reasons...
The recent wrong reason was nod for Shariat Laws in the north-west region of Pakistan to appease Talibanis. It attracted criticism from all corners of world including Pakistan. These development also led to displacement of minorities from this region.
Now the Supreme Court and National Judicial (Policy Making) Committee of Pakistan has planned a series of reforms in Judicial system of Pakistan.
Most of the states in South Asia have failed in their duty to ensure speedy and affordable justice to the people. Whatever may be the constraints of Judiciary, right to justice has not got its due. Millions of people in the region have lived and died with the 'Tareekh' given by the HONOURABLE Courts of Law, but the trials keep living like soap operas of television channels..not reaching to any end..
Recently, the Supreme Court and National Judicial (Policy Making) Committee of Pakistan has issued guidelines for courts at all levels to ensure speedy clearance of old cases and has also stipulated timeframe of basic issues of courts e.g. grant of bails etc. In proposed system all bail applications shall be decided by a magistrate within three days, while criminal cases punishable with imprisonment for 7 years or more, including death cases, shall “preferably” be decided within six months. This committee has also decided that the chief justices and judges of the superior courts will not accept posts of governor or any other office in the executive. To tackle the menace of corruption in judiciary the committee has devised a system of reporting corruption and also the system of surprise inspection of lower courts by superior courts. Mr Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the Chief Justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court has definitely tried to pay back to his countrymen who stood behind him strongly, when he was thrown out of his office by the President.
Apart from ensuring and generating jobs for rural and urban people and creating infrastructure for overall development, a well planned roadmap for improving the justice delivery system is also much needed in South Asian Region, especially in Pakistan and India. Pakistan has definitely raised hope in common man.. now it is for all to take notice of it and encourage this process of reforms in this terror-affected country by all means of diplomacy.
InshaAllah Insaaf milega..aur bawaqt milega..
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