LAHORE: Eminent speakers addressing the Jurist Conference organized by the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan here on Wednesday, called upon the Supreme Court not to resort to expediencies on the Panama leaks issue and give a bold verdict that could ensure the supremacy of the constitution and the restoration of the judiciary’s prestige.
They said that the nation had high expectations from the apex court about the elimination of corruption and for getting rid of the gang of the corrupt, therefore, the learned judges of the Supreme Court should bury the Doctrine of necessity for ever.
Ameer, JI, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, who presided over the moot held at a local hotel, said that the rulers had confined themselves to the federal capital and cut themselves off from the masses. They were not ready to listen to anybody not heed to any advice, he added.
Eminent jurist .M. Zafar, Justice (rtd) Abdur Rahman Ansari, President, Lahore High Corut Bar, Rana Ziaur Abdur Rahman, Liaqat Baloch, Prof. Ibrahim Khan, Asadullah Bhutto, also spoke on the occasion.
He said the rulers had gone to the extreme end to escape accountability. He said after the Panama leaks, the Prime Minister should have stepped down, a judicial commission should have been constituted and the Premier should have explained his position.
He said, that loot and plunder had been going on in the country for the last seventy years and there was none to hold accountability. He said the more security walls the rulers were raising around themselves the more insecure they were becoming.
The JI chief welcomed Supreme Court orders stopping NAB from Plea Bargain. He said that NAB and all other such institutions had only been going after the small fish, letting the big fish off the hook.
He said that the entire political leadership and the government machinery was littered with corruption and instead of being ashamed for that, they were devising novel methods to continue their loot. The international establishment had been thrusting its pawns on the country , and we had people like Shaukat Aziz and Moeen Qureshi. These people disappeared after completing their agenda. He said the solution to the problems of the country lay in the enforcement of the Islamic order and a neat and clean political leadership.
Eminent jurist S.M. Zafar said that the nation would have to trust the judiciary for the eradication of corruption, and hoped that the judiciary would not disappoint the nation.
He said that the cancer of corruption had paralyzed the whole society and if it was not checked, the survival of the state would be in danger.
He said in his opinion, the Panama leaks was a blessing in disguise ad it had provided the nation another chance for mending its ways.
S.M. Zafar said that in an atmosphere where there was darkness all around, the Jamaat e Islami was nothing less than a blessing as the honesty and integrity of its leadership was above board and its democratic structure was before everybody.
He said the country at this juncture, needed a legislation for the formation of a judicial commission that not only hauled up the plunderers but also recovered the looted wealth from them and handed them exemplary punishment. He said that the Commission should comprise persons known for their integrity.
