ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court (SC) has issued notices to Attorney General
for Pakistan to appear and submit a comprehensive report about the
incidents which have been taking place in Karachi for the last more
than one month.
Further, SC has directed Chief Secretary and
PPO Sindh through Advocate General Sindh to submit details of the
incidents. President, Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) as well as
President Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA) have also been
issued notices to appear and assist the Court on 26.08.2011 (Friday).
A
five member Special Bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr.
Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and comprising Justice Shakirullah
Jan, Mr. Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk, Mr. Justice Tariq Parvez and Mr.
Justice Ghulam Rabbani has also been constituted to hear the case.
The
notice was taken on a statement of Allama Tahir-ul-Qadri which appeared
in a section of media calling for action on Karachi situation. Upon
which, Chief Justice of Pakistan passed the order “Put up a detailed
note with the support of News Items published in different Newspapers.
In the meantime CDs/DVD from different Channels is also collected. Put
up on Aug 24".
CDs/DVD were received from different channels
and office submitted a detailed note that *Common problems, presently
being faced by the residents of Karachi, are that their lives and
properties are not safe; frequent killings of innocent citizens have
made their lives miserable; the citizens are being abducted for ransom;
beheaded dead bodies with tied arms and legs of the innocents wrapped
in sacs are being recovered in large numbers daily.
Street
crime is in abundance; different groups are involved in target
killings; the police and rangers are watching merely as spectators; and
the top government functionaries are callously viewing the situation
with no inclination to maintain the writ of the State.*
Different
views have been expressed by the observers, analysts and anchormen
about causes of this catastrophe. One view is that different groups
like MQM, PPP and ANP in order to establish their hegemony, have
restored to clashes and target killings; another view attributes
interference of foreign powers like America, Israel and India to the
creation of this tragic situation; some say that it is due to
terrorism; according to some the situation is aggravating due to ethnic
and sectarian problems; some of them think that Karachi being hub of
economic, social, political and cultural activities is under fire
because the enemies of Pakistan want to prove that Pakistan is a failed
State in spite of being a nuclear power. Online
