Newly built courts would provide speedy justice: CJP

Author: Staff Report

KARACHI: Chief Justice of Pakistan Anwer Zaheer Jamali inaugurated a building housing six anti-terrorism courts on the premises of the Karachi central prison here on Thursday.

Speaking on the occasion, the CJP said that newly-built courts would help improve the infrastructural facilities and dispensation of speedy justice.

He expressed his pleasure that the provincial government has kept its long-standing promise of constructing courts in the prison and hoped that the remaining courts would be ready by April 2017.

The CJP reiterated that the judiciary was the third pillar of the country’s Constitution, which has placed profound responsibility on it. However, he added, no institution could give performance in the absence of infrastructural facilities.

He said that improving the judicial system meant dispensing swift justice on the doorstep of people. “The construction of more courts would help clear the backlog
of cases.”

The apex court’s judge Justice Amir Hani Muslim, SHC chief justice Sajjad Ali Shah, the judges of high court and lower courts, and the provincial authorities were present on the occasion.