The Supreme Court on the request of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has restored the old magistracy system.
A three-member Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali took up the case for hearing on Thursday. The counsel for the provincial government Ahsan Aurangzeb told the court that Sharia Nizam-e-Adl reforms were introduced in 2009 by abolishing the magistracy system, which led to the deteriorated law and order situation in the province.
He said that the governor again imposed the magistracy system which was challenged by petitioners in the Peshawar High Court, which suspended the magistracy system and restored Sharia Nizam-e-Adl reforms in 2009. “We have come to the SC against the decision of the PHC, which should be declared null and void,” he said.
The court while admitting the petition for hearing suspended the PHC’s decision of abolishing the magistracy system and issued a notice to the attorney general of Pakistan and adjourned the hearing indefinitely.