Apparently seems unjustifiable, but those unfortunate souls who have have their cases pending in the court will support this contention that our Judicial System is on verge of collapse. Contrary to the judicial policy , cases are being delayed inordinately.Influentials lawyers continues manipulating the judicial process.Judges of lower judiciary are highly paid govt officials with a new Civil Judge -cum-judicial magistrate being paid more than 70000 a month along with other perks.However corruption is still rampant in the courts.I solicit the opinion of members on this issue.

No doubt !

I have not seen "asi balandi, asi pasti" before. These lawyers who were at the fore front of the movement for rule of law after the CJ forced removel by a dictator, now behaving like lawless goons themselves.

Look at Mr. Ali Ahamad Kurd who was the leader for the restoration of Judges in line with the rule of law is now leading lawyers for the removel of a honest judge who refused to be blakemailed by the black sheeps of this profession.

Look at the pics of "lawyers" beating an alone policeman and breaking the camaras of media team. Look at them attacking the chamber of the CJ of lahore High Court !

No doubt our judicial sytem is on collapse in line with other systems of this country thanks to the NRO and corrupt practices of the Law Minister and current gov.

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Agreed with Sociologist and Saleeqa. Here are some statistics which published on February 01, 2010 in Daily Times. 1.52 million cases pending in courts countrywide, 18,312 cases in SC, 110,110 in LHC, 29,414 in SHC, 14,522 in PHC, 4,893 in BHC.

We have adhoc judicial system which according to the lawyers is independent and this system is revolving around single person: Mr. Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudry though he is also criticized which is another topic. After the retirement of Iftikhar Chaudry we will soon get the judicial system in previous position as that of Dogars and company.

Whole concentration of the apex court is on cases like NRO, 18th amendment, Presidential immunity and certain other cases which can be counted on finger tips whereas the remaining 1.52 millions cases are set aside and people are begging for mercy.

In our country people are reluctant to lodge FIA in police station and prefer bargaining and reconciliation instead of becoming the dreadful victim of our cruel 'thana-kacheri' system. For that reason cruel parallel courts i.e. Jirga, Maraka, Panchayat, are still existing in our country and people forcefully rely on their due to its easy and quick system of so-called justice.

Judiciary was restored by a collation of all the major political parties of the country including PML-N, ANP, PPP and other nationalist. Movement of lawyers was successful due to popular support and now they take credit of the restoration of judiciary and blackmail them for their mischief. Lawyers dictate the judges specially of lower judiciary because they have restored judiciary.

Personally I am of the view that the movement in which major political societies were united in collaboration with civil society and lawyers liberated and restored some of the judges not the judiciary. People have to support leaders, so its their responsibility to decide wisely. In a nutshell judiciary is still in chains in lower level and the movement was for the restoration of some judges. People want justice not chief justice,, institutions should be made independent for life time not for the sake of some people.

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No matter how fast i run or how far i go it wont escape me, pain, misery, emptiness.

The movement for restoration of judiciary has rendered the bench under influence of lawyers. Currently no judge in lower courts can dare to confront the bar ,even on justifiable grounds.We heard that a lawyer slapped a judge, thrashed police and civilians and broken the glasses of CJ's Office. If a person other than lawyer had done so , had the court responded in the same way? I am sure that person would have been charged and severely punished.This implies that justice is differnt for differnt classes.

When i say that our judicial system is on verge of collapse, i have reason to assert this.It may be functioning well for those whose information is limited to media reports , stating the suo mnoto actions taken by courts and thrashing the executives but reality stands on other side of extreme. Those who want to ascertain the real sitution , i would advise them, to once visit any f the court or Khuli Kecheri by Police high upsss. There ,the situation is utterly depressed and precarious.

Unfortunatley Judges have become a party ,a trade union.The incumbent CJ Lahore advise the people party to settle it amtters with PML(N) or leave the coalition. Contrary to universal judicial norms , judges are visiting the social gathering and bar association in order to strengthen their position. I quote an incidence that can verified.

Soon after restoration of judiciary ,The CJ Lahore visited District Bar Qasoor.The lawyers ,there, complained that the attitude of an additional Session Judge is not good with them.He,the CJ, with out giving the judge ,agisnt whome the complaint was made , any oppourtunity to explain his position, made him OSD.This is the attitude that made the lawyers so adamant and stubborn.

There is no concept of unity of command in judicial set up.A judge in a bench should not be influenced by any consideration but here the judges have made an alliance.A leading laweres said few days back that

"When Judges make alliances ,the justice disappear ,only Chief justice remain there."

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Hoee hay jab say mukhalif hawa zamanay key......
Humain bhee dhun see hoee hay diaa jalaanay key

The "vested interest" groups in every society try their best to safeguard the interest of their members, but they dont stoop so low as the lawyers are found these days. For the race of money and undue favours from judiciry, they are throwing away the professional ethics. There is no difference between them and the politicized students who do desturction on the roads by burning buses and beating everyone who is opposed to them.
I think it is due to privatization of Law education, that is producing quantity not quality.

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No doubt,judiciary has achieved a milestone in appearance of its restoration,which owes its success because of the stupendous and perpetual strides on the part of lawyers and civil society activists.Since its restoration,it seems that the said institution is becoming forgetful of the common man,who is the direct effected unit of our exploited society.The backlog of millions of cases is an authentic proof of its digression from its very cause of deliverance of justice. Its all round progress is encircled in few cases like NRO,Constitutional reforms and steel mill cases.Still a major bulk of people are longing for their hearing and final judgments.Admittedly,the judiciary has lost its characteristic role and mired in bickering all the time.In these circumstances,where entire nation is facing internal and external challenges,one hopes,that being the apex court,it will play its intrinsic role rather than wasting its precious time.

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" O ALLAH,let your blessings come upon Muhammad PBUH and the family of Muhammad PBUH, as you have blessed Ibrahim AS and his family.
Truly,you are praiseworthy and glorious.

I want to share this article which is relevant to the topic.

Judge gardi versus Wukla gardi:

WHAT IS JUDICIARY:
Judiciary is the group of unbiased persons who are qualified and experienced for the judgments of disputes and other problems in the state. Their duty is to see both side of the picture and all aspects of a rolling dispute, and then make judgments according to laws and regulations of the state.

IS JUDICIARY IN PAKISTAN UNBIASED:
It is very sad that judiciary never remained unbiased in Pakistan? From head of political parties till a poor person of Pakistan will tell us that the courts are corrupt. Many innocent people are sentenced to death, while their families are also sentenced to poverty by corrupt decisions of judges. While many sinful authorities are released with honor because they have money and authority to prove that “lie” is actual “true” and the “truth” is “wrong”.

SOME EXAMPLES OF FAMOUS UNBIASED DECISIONS:
1) Molvi Tameez ud Din Case.
2) The case about the murder of Hussain Shaheed Suharwardi.
3) The case about the removal of Khawaja Nazi mud Din Government.
4) The case about the wrong decision of Ayub Khan to enforce first martial law in Pakistan.
5) The case about Fatima Jinnah’s defeat in “selected basic democratic elections”.
6) The case about the rule of Yahiya Khan.
7) The case about Hamood ur Rehman commission report
The case about Bangladesh war. (Mukti & Bahni war).
9) The case about death sentence of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
10) The case about ban on political parties, targeting specially PPP in Zia regime.
11) The case about Zia’s death. (The realities of the case were hidden from public of Pakistan).
12) The case about “Plane scheme”. (Nawaz Sharif did commitment with Musharraf and went abroad on the condition that he will not take part in politics for next 10 years from 2000 onwards).
13) All cases that were launched against Asif Ali Zardari & Benazir Bhutto on political bases. These cases were so long that Asif Ali Zardari remained in prisons for almost about 8 years without any single case proven on him. (If he gets “UMAR QAID” then he already has completed his “UMAR QAID” because the average time for a prisoner in this punishment is about 8 to 9 years, while all cases on him are wrong and he does not deserve for any “LIFE PRISON”.)

SOME CASES NOT JUDGED BY COURTS PURPOSELY:
1) Mehran bank scandals.
2) Iftikhar chaudhary’s son case about Mercedes cars and other facilities used in wrong purposes.
3) Ittifaq mills cases.
4) PCO no.1 case. (Although PCO 2 case was taken as priority by Iftikhar Chaudhary because he was only involved in PCO 1 not in PCO 2).
5) DSP Imran’s case which uttered truth about Sipah e Sahaba and terrorists linkages with Muslim League N.
6) Murder case of the son of Asghar Khan who was minister in Musharraf first 3 years.
7) Akbar Bugti Case.

WORST DECISION IN THE HISTORY OF PAKISTAN:
No doubt, that the “judicial murder” of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was the worst decision of our corrupt courts. After that decision U.S.A was able to use Pakistan against U.S.S.R and break into a Russia and many other states to fulfill its dream about making sole super power in the world. The disputes of Kashmir and Palestine were directly affected by that wrong decision. Himalayan mountains are truly weeping over his murder. Molvi Mushtaq, who was biased judge, who gave Bhutto death sentence, was died in worst condition. His funeral was attacked by dangerous bees and for about whole day his dead body was eaten by those poisonous bees and he was buried with great difficulty in Miani Saheb, Lahore.

BEST DECISION IN THE HISTORY OF PAKISTAN:
Unfortunately, there is not a single case that we can show to whole world as a testimony of our good decisions. When Iftikhar Chaudhary, at first, took a bold stance against the dictatorship of Musharraf, then it was felt that now our courts will change but when he was restored, he also followed his ancestor judges.

JUDICIAL DICTATORSHIP:
With the change in the global world, the scene of world is changing very rapidly. The “good” is changing its shapes and the “bad” is also trying to convert it into new faces. Dictatorship is the oldest dispute in whole world but especially in Asia. If we talk about our country, then more than 60% of rule was under military dictatorship, while other 40% government were also influenced by the army of Pakistan.
Establishment and civil servants are the 2 big babies of Pakistan Army Gens. Sikander Mirza, Ayub Khan, Yahiya Khan, Zia ul Haq & Parvez Musharraf are major dictators who ruled for many years in Pakistan. They ruined the system of Pakistan which resulted in poverty and disastrous situations in Pakistan.

Now the public of Pakistan has a deep hate in their hearts for army dictatorship. So the establishment’s new war is to bring judicial dictatorship in Pakistan in the lead of Iftikhar Chaudhary. That’s why courts are always targeting government, political parties and other people. Any person that has even a far from link with Pakistan People’s Party is targeted by supreme court of Pakistan, as PPP is the sole party in Pakistan which never supported any dictatorship in Pakistan. PPP leaders and workers have sacrificed their lives for the sake of democracy.

LAWYER:
A lawyer is that qualified person whose duty is to bring out the realities of any case. It is his moral duty to give the case realities and all relative things in front of the court. Then it is the duty of court to judge that what is true and what decision should be made.

LAWYERS’ MOVEMENTS:
Pakistani lawyers have launched many movements time by time. The founder of Pakistan, Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a lawyer himself. The grandfather (from maternal side) of President Asif Ali Zardari was the first Muslim lawyer of sub-continent, names Hassan Ali Afandi. He formed Sindh Mardissah tul Islam, in which many Muslim leaders studied including Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The role of Muslim lawyers was radical in the freedom movement of Pakistan.

After 1947, many lawyers’ movements were activated but the most famous lawyer’s movement is that which was launched against the dictatorship of Parvez Musharraf. The member of CEC PPP, Chaudhary Aitezaz Ahsan was the leader of this movement. Iftikhar Chaudhary was stored as CJ by great efforts of this movement. But when the mission of this movement was achieved, then this movement was finished.

LAWYERISM:
“Lawyerism” or “Wukula Gardi” is the new term defined by our private media specially GEO & EXPRESS. The establishment’s wish was to take lawyers movement in its hand and continue it against the democratic government of PPP after elections 2008, but the movement had achieved its goals that’s why majority of lawyers stood with democratic system. In this anger, the media and establishment then started to demoralize lawyers and presented them as rascals. After it, the lawyers again came into action and they pointed towards negative role of media and establishment. Ali Ahmad Kurd was the main personality who uttered his voice against negative game against democratic system and judicial dictatorship.

TUSSLE BETWEEN LAWYERS & JUDGES:
Since then, the tussle between judges and lawyers has started. The result of this tussle is that which we are witnessing in Lahore. Secretariat and Mall Road are daily closed by obstacles to stop lawyers which protest against bad decisions of judges. I myself have to travel on foot from M.A.O College to Governor House and then to Urdu Bazaar because obstacles were so tight that even a bicycle was not able to pass. That area is the heart of Lahore and millions of people got disturbed by the wrong acts of Punjab Police.

Many times, Punjab Police tortured lawyers very badly. That’s why on 2 October, 2010, lawyers decided to punish the extremist police. They attacked police and many policemen were beaten by lawyers. In the show of KAMRAN KHAN in GEO, he declared at 8:32 P.M on 1st October 2010, that the lawyers and judges have compromised on an agreement. He further claimed that government of PPP, especially Dr. Babar Awan was behind these quarrels because he distributed money in lawyer’s bars.

But it is very funny, that in less than 24 hours, the fight between lawyers and judges reached to its peak. Now Supreme Court is very worried as its dream of judicial dictatorship is now breathing its last. Many famous lawyers including CJ of Lahore High Court, Khawaja Sharif are now allowed to appear in markets and roads of Punjab. The situation is mishandled by police and courts because lawyers truly pointed towards careless attitudes of Civil & Session Judges. But this mishandling has resulted in lawyer’s objections on High Court & Supreme Court too.

While one thing is clear that Dr. Babar Awan distributed money in bars according to traditions of previous democratic governments. Liaqat Ali Khan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif had also distributed funds to law bars of Pakistan previously. So this is not a new thing. Supreme Court and Media should avoid criticizing negatively democratic government and CJ should do fair justice by keeping themselves unbiased. But the present situation is very poor. Let’s see! Where the wind blows!

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When you try, you risk failure. When you don’t try, you ensure it.