Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Anwar Zaheer Jamali on Saturday cautioned that the culture of levelling allegations against each other was flourishing in the country, but no one was ready to discharge one’s obligations.
Addressing a seminar here, Justice Jamali said that details of fundamental rights were enshrined in the constitution; therefore no law contrary to human rights could be enacted in the country.
He said that the legislature, executive and judiciary needed to play their due roles.
The CJP said that the foremost thing for independence of the judiciary was that everyone did one’s duty, adding that the responsibility for implementation of law did not only rest with the judiciary but it was the responsibility of the entire society.
Justice Jamali further said that “it has been observed that the way the elite class and politicians go abroad for treatment of even ordinary ailments, we too take advantage of legal and judicial system of other countries for resolution of our specific issues. This is not a bad thing, but the need is there that we find solution to these problems at the local level, keeping in view our specific circumstances”.
The CJP regretted that 27 years had passed, but Urdu had not yet been implemented as official language so far. “Our national language is Urdu and its implementation is must. We want to implement our national language in the country but still we are unaware of our language,” he remarked.
“We will have to change our judicial system into Urdu as soon as possible because education on law is imparted in respective national langue all over the world,” he underscored.
Justice Jamali also observed that “we will have to focus on population of the country first of all for the sake of development which has surpassed 190 million.
Observing that “positive mind and positive discussion yield positive results”, the CJP deplored that “we could not even evolve consensus on basic and vital issues owing to negative thinking”.