By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: Former Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice (Retd) Nazim Siddiqui has said that strengthening of courts and independence of judiciary were necessary for dispensation of justice in the country.
Addressing a seminar on “Role of Lawyers in Civil Society” organised by Legal Aid, Human Rights and Rescue Organisation Pakistan here at a local hotel on Tuesday, he urged the lawyers to play their role in fulfilling the legal requirements. “The lawyers must assist the Supreme Court to decide the matters pertaining to Supreme Judicial Council on merits so that justice could be done,” he stressed. He said that all of us must restrain from such activities that defame the superior judiciary and must honor the court. Regarding the SJC constitution, he said it was according to legal requisites. He urged all political parties not to give the prevailing judicial situation a political shape and keep politics away from the matter. Provincial Minister for Law, Chaudhry Iftikhar, Additional Advocate General Hyderabad, Masood Noorani, Additional Advocate General Sindh Qazi Khalid, Barrister Shahida Jamil and others also spoke on the occasion.