Jeevay Pakistan Jeevay MuqamiHakumat (JPJM) chairman Daniyal Aziz has said that economic growth is impossible without political progress therefore devolution of power at grass root level is the only solution of the social and economic problems of Pakistan for which the government will have to hold local government elections.
While speaking at a seminar on “Future of Independence of Judiciary” here in Faisalabad on Wednesday, Daniyal said separation of judiciary from the executive was also essential to ensure protection of women, minorities and underprivileged classes which suffer most at the hands of the executive that caters influential people at the local level. Separation of judiciary from the executive is the only way to establish a system where the rule of law prevails thereby ensuring that the executive is equally answerable before the court of law for its actions rather than the executive itself being a court, he added.
He said inflation could not be controlled through administrative measures but by increasing interest rate. He said further that the top political leadership had taken billions of rupees loans from the banks and, that is why, the interest rate is being reduced to benefit them. He said the unemployment is soaring as unemployed youth is roaming on the roads with degrees in their hands and the government has failed to provide them employment opportunities.
The JPJM was not only mobilising the public but also fighting legal battle, he said adding that Local Council Associations during the last three years had filed 27 cases in the Supreme Court of Pakistan and High Courts in four provinces for the restoration of local governments and against the appointment of administrator in place of Nazims but there was little interest by the courts against these constitutional violations by the provinces. Chief justice should see that why these cases had been kept pending for so long, he said.
He said the historic Judgment of the Division Bench headed by Baluchistan High Court chief justice had restored the supremacy of the constitution and had foiled all efforts to curb the independence of judiciary. Such decisions were needed in other provinces as well to give people their due rights, concluded Daniyal.
