The writer is a lawyer and an academic.
COURTS have come to occupy a distinctively unique place in modern states given their multifarious but quintessential roles not only in the development of jurisprudence and adjudication of disputes but also in determining the questions that have a considerable bearing on such diverse areas as fundamental rights, economic efficiency, environmental protection, treaty enforcement, electoral transparency, and in extreme cases, even resolution of political disputes. Hence, the selection of the superior judiciary has become an arduous if not a highly contentious issue, involving competence, integrity, belief, affiliation, background, etc.
Incidentally, our judiciary is also in the eye of a ‘storm’ generated by the recent elevation of Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar as a judge of the Supreme Court. Otherwise, a highly competent and popular judge of the Sindh High Court, he is junior to four judges, including the chief justice who happens to be the se
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(گزشتہ سے پیوستہ) 1996کے دوران جب طالبان کی حکومت وجود میں آئی تو توقعات کا الائو جل اُٹھا۔نوید سنائی دی کہ قانون کی یکساں حکمرانی، عدالتوں سے بلاتفریق انصاف، حکمرانوں کی جوابدہی اور حکومتی اہلکاروں کا بےلاگ احتساب، سرکاری حُسن انتظام میں شامل ہوگا۔ طالبان کے حامی کہتے ہیں کہ پیش قدمی اِنہی خطوط پر جاری تھی مگر مغربی دُنیا نے اسلام دُشمنی میں طالبان کی حکومت کو تسلیم نہ کیا۔ عالمی میڈیا اُن کے کنٹرول میں تھا اور حقیقت کے برعکس طالبان کے طرزِ حکمرانی کو اِس طرح پیش کیا گیا کہ وہ موجودہ زمانے کیلئے نامناسب اور
Seniority and judicial appointments
July 19, 2021
The reservations expressed by the Sindh High Court Bar Association and, later, by the Supreme Court Bar Association about the intended elevation of a ‘relatively junior’ judge of the Sindh High Court to the Supreme Court of Pakistan have reminded us of the large credibility gaps that continue to afflict public life in Pakistan. Questions have been asked about the choice of the particular judge while other senior judges and the chief justice of the Sindh High Court continue to be by-passed for elevation, year after year.
Appointments to the superior judiciary have always been an occasion for controversy. Why should a person be appointed to any of the high courts or the Supreme Court of Pakistan? Given the nature of the function and the scope of the power the superior judiciary has come to exercise, reliance on seniority as the overriding principle is a certain path to instilling mediocrity into the judicial landscape. A convey
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पाकिस्तान कोई मुल्क नहीं है। वह एक भूलभुलैया है, एक पहेली जिसे आज तक पाकिस्तानी खुद भी हल नहीं कर पाए। न्यूयॉर्क टाइम्स के डेक्लान वॉल्श से एक पाकिस्तानी अफसर ने कहा था, यह कई कमरों वाले एक मकान की तरह है, जिसमें एक कमरे को दूसरे की खबर नहीं होती। खुद वॉल्श को पाकिस्तान उस जापानी बॉक्स वाली पहेली की तरह लगा, जिसके फंदों को एक साथ सुलझाया नहीं जा सकता।
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