Judiciary must take inventory of its declining repute: Fawad Ch

In a tweet, Chaudhry mentioned the Minister for Regulation and Justice Forough Naseem had raised an vital query: if judges weren’t chargeable for the property of their wives and youngsters, then how was it potential to carry politicians and bureaucrats accountable?

The minister mentioned that the brand new Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Umar Atta Bandial, would face this problem when he can be sworn in.

The regulation minister, talking in Geo Information’ programme “Naya Pakistan” on Saturday, had mentioned judges, like different authorities officers, have been additionally public officer holders.

“Will district judges and administrative officers not be answerable for his or her household’s property?” he requested in response to the Supreme Court docket’s detailed verdict issued in Justice Qazi Faez Isa’s case.

The regulation minister termed the SC’s choice within the evaluation case as “improper and contradictory”.

“If the judges of the Supreme Court docket are usually not answerable for the property of their households, then will the identical apply to different authorities officers? If the judges are usually not answerable, then why ought to the prime minister or I can be accountable?