Sir: To begin with, I salute the worthy Chief Justice of Pakistan for taking notice of the unhealthy water supply in Sindh and now in Punjab as well. I hope the politicians and government officials who love boasting of mega projects will now realise their guilt of neglecting a basic requirement of life.
Now I would like to bring to the kind notice of the worthy CJP an example of a lawyer proving the federal government and judicial system helpless in the Capital, and conveying a message to law-abiding citizens to use force if they can or submit to land grabbers.
According to a press report prominently published in an English daily on December 12, a lawyer illegally occupied a residential plot in Sector E-7 of the Capital 35 years ago and refuses to vacate it despite Supreme Court orders and the efforts of a bailiff who faced threats and offensive language. The victim is in a desperate situation despite 35 years of legal efforts. In any case, 35 years period with no justice is itself not worthy of being called or considered an effective legal system of justice.
I humbly appeal to the worthy CJP to kindly set a punitive example of this open violation of law with impunity for the nation to see and legal community to realise its national responsibility of taming lawyers involved in illegal activities, including frequent violence such as the Multan incident on December 13?
M AKRAM NIAZI
Rawalpindi
Published in Daily Times, December 15th 2017.