RAHIM YAR KHAN: President Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Asma
Jahangir has said authoring foreign policy is not domain of army but it
is mandate of democratic rulers.
“ Formation of foreign policy
is not mandate of military but it is job of democratic rulers. It has
to be decided by the rulers they have to purchase gun or book at
first’, she said this while addressing oath taking ceremony of District
Bar Association Rahim Yar Khan here Saturday.
Dictatorship has
gone but dictatorial minset is still working. However SCBA will
continue its struggle till the elimination of dictatorial mindset , she
declared.
SCBA is not funcioning under tutelage of government,
she said adding it takes decisions on its own so that future of coming
generation remains invulnerable.
“ I hold in high esteem all
the judiciary from civil judge to Chief Justice of Pakistan. Judiciary
should channelise all their energies in providing speedy and
inexpensive justice to people”, she urged. However bar association will
continue to hold the judges accountable if they pronounce any wrong
verdict, she held.
There should be respresentation of bar
association besides parliament and judiciary in the induction of new
judges, she demanded.
Government should rely upon
representatives of bar associations rather than taking secret reports
from ISI or inspector of IB during the process of appointment of new
judges, she stressed.
She urged the lawyers to take proactive
steps for provision of speedy justice to common man and discourage the
elements found involved in registeration of false cases.
She told that funds would be allocated for bar associations in federal and provincial budgets.
Time
has come lawyers should focus on politics of serving the people rather
than plots, she underlined. SCBA would evolve its agenda on its own in
future and media should not set priorities of its agenda, she
underscored.
She went on to say when Prime Minister Syed Yousuf
Raza Gilani constituted the commissions to probe into Abbottabad
incident and killing of Salim Shahzad without the approval of Chief
Justice of Pakistan then SCBA opposed this step of prime minister first
of all saying it was agaisnt the dignity of judiciary. Governent was
forced to constitute commission with the approval of Chief Justice of
Pakistan, she held. Online
