PESHAWAR, Jan 6: The Peshawar District Bar Association has arranged a seminar ‘Supreme courts for provinces’, to be held on Saturday at the sessions court bar room.

A press release issued on Monday said that eminent lawyers and human rights activists including Barrister Zahoorul Haq, Qazi Mohammed Anwer, Afrasiab Khattak, Barrister Baacha, Zaffar Abbas Zaidi, Lateef Afridi and others would speak at the seminar.

The release quoted the president of the association, Sher Afgan Khattak, as having said that in most of the developed countries the provinces had their own supreme courts, whereas there was a federal court at the central level for resolving constitutional disputes.

He said that most of the areas in Balochistan, Sindh and NWFP were far away from Islamabad and the inhabitants of those areas had to face problems in travelling to the federal capital.

He said that apart from high court there should be a supreme court in each of the four provinces. Mr Khattak said that in the federal court judges should be appointed on the basis of equal representation. Moreover, he said the mechanism for appointment of judges should be so transparent that only those people could be appointed as judge of federal court who made decisions without any fear or favour so that in future no military ruler could achieve desired results from the courts.