A special bench of the Supreme Court resumed hearing of the suo motu case on the killings in Karachi city, according to a private TV channel on Tuesday.
Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said that the city was bleeding but nothing was done to stop the killings. During the hearing, the chief justice also questioned Sindh Advocate General Abdul Fatah Malik why the killers of 306 people were not arrested. The court said that many people were frowning at the bench formed by the Supreme Court to hear the Karachi killing case.
The advocate general requested the court to give him 15 minutes at the end of the hearing to clarify his position. The chief justice said that the court wanted to hear from him a lot and ample time would be given to him, adding that the advocate general was hiding many details. The advocate general said that he was unable to show footage in the court due to the objectionable content.
He said that the footage of the torture cell could be shown in the chamber. The chief justice asked to him whether he wanted to save the government or the country. During proceedings, Justice Iftikhar said that if foreign elements were involved in the violence in Karachi, why had the federal government and the provincial government not taken any action against the people working for those elements.
Moreover, Chief Justice Iftikhar also summoned Sindh Law Secretary Ghulam Nabi Shah before the court. On the subject of Kamran Madhuri, the chief justice asked Inspector General of Police Wajid Ali Durrani whether the alleged target killer was under police custody, to which the police chief replied that he was in police custody and in a wounded state. During the previous session, the chief justice had issued directions for a video on the incidents of violence, as well as the ordinances for the restoration and subsequent suspension of the Sindh Commissionerate system to be presented before the court.
Also, during the session earlier on Monday, Justice Jamali had asked why former Home Affairs minister Zulfikar Mirza had not spoken up when he had known everything all along. Separately, the counsel for the Awami National Party (ANP) had said that Mr Mirza should be summoned before the court. The special bench, headed by the chief justice, includes Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Justice Sarmad Jalal Usmani, Justice Amer Hani Muslim and Justice Ghulam Rabbani.
Every eye is focued on this interesting and important Case. Instead of finalizing it soon, please dig out all the aspects and the decision should come on all the leading print as well as electronic media. All the stakeholders should participate and offer their views and comments for broder spectrum of the case.
Better late than never is my answer to the Chief Justice of Pakistan who had to wait four long years after the carnage of 12th May and on the very day he himself was literally under house arrest at Karachi International airport and MQM thugs were let loose by Altaf Hussain from London.
Mr Chief Justice, if he had taken a suo moto notice soon after his restoration to the supreme court so many hundreds of lives would not have been lost. Alas he did not do that which is incomprehensible.
Now since he is himself presiding the bench to discuss the situation in Karachi he will be well advised to ask Zulfiqar Mirza to appear before the bench. I was pleased to know that CJP pointed out some mistakes in the FIR lodged in the aftermath of MQM murderers' attack on Chakra Goth. The CJP was rather troubled by the fact that Kamran Madhuri and his accomplices' names were not included in the FIR.r
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