Govt.’s unspoken resolve to mock the judiciary, another tough year passes for the apex courts

Govt.’s unspoken resolve to mock the judiciary, another tough year passes for the apex courts

Lahore: (Wednesday, January 04, 2012) Bent upon serving justice to the powerless people of land of the pure, the apex courts had another tough year in the hands of the ruling lot which seems bent upon mocking decisions of supreme
court every day.

The PPP-led government targeted the Supreme Court and the Lahore High Court on all judgments which were related to its leadership. The PPP leaders made a mockery of orders whether it was the decision against the National Reconciliation
Ordinance, dual office of the President or memo scandal case. At the beginning of 2011, the Lahore High Court took up the high profile case of American CIA operator Raymond Davis who was arrested on the charges of killing two motorcyclists, Faheem and Faizan,
at Mozang Chungi, Ferozepur Road, on January 27.

Another motorcyclist, Obaidur Rahman, also lost his life when a US Consulate vehicle, which apparently came to rescue Davis, violating the one-way traffic rule, ran him over yards away from the scene of the first occurrence. Raymond Davis was taken into custody
on the spot while two others in the vehicle managed to flee to the American Consulate. A legal battle started in the LHC after the US demanded Davis release and sought diplomatic immunity for him.

The Pakistani government could not establish in LHC that Davis enjoyed diplomatic immunity. However, some hidden hands managed to persuade legal heirs to the both deceased to receive blood money and an additional sessions judge eventually acquitted Davis in
the double murder case. Davis was flown to the US straight from jail. The LHC decided a petition against President Asif Zardari’s dual office and declared that the President could neither hold a political office nor could he participate in political activities
or use the Presidency for such purpose as the office demanded that he should remain completely neutral and impartial.

The LHC also set aside haj Policy 2011 to the extent of allocation of quota to private haj group organizers (HGOs) and directed the Ministry of Religious Affairs to allocate the haj quota afresh after giving ample opportunity to all eligible organisers. The
LHC also constituted a judicial commission to probe into the blunders committed in preparation of computerised result of intermediate. The commission held the chairmen and secretaries of all the eights boards, former secretary Higher Education Department Ahad
Cheema, and former IT Consultant of education boards, Majid Naeem, responsible for the faults in the result.

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