The president of the Supreme Court Bar Association Ms Asma Jehangir has criticised the verdict in the PCO judges case. Addressing members of the Sindh High Court Bar Association and Hyderabad District Bar Association on Wednesday, she said: “Police use third degree treatment but some people are doing it in the judiciary with their pen. This pen embodies the trust of the nation and it should not be used for settling personal scores and rivalries.”
Ms Jehangir was commenting on the verdict which the Supreme Court had announced earlier in the day, rejecting intra-court appeals of judges who had taken oath under the Provisional Constitution Order and asking the government to issue a notification of their dismissal. “I don`t want to see justice stifled. Although he was a PCO judge, yet we supported the chief justice when he was sacked. We believed that if a dictator was allowed to ride roughshod over the judiciary this time, he would just bury the institution the next time,” she said.
Ms Jehangir said that decisions based on a feudal and `panchayati` mindset would not work anymore.
And I was just wodnernig about that too!