QUETTA, Dec 13 Balochistan Bar Association president Wasay Tareen has urged the government to elevate judges to the Supreme Court on the basis of seniority to help promote merit and justice.
Addressing a press conference at the Quetta Press Club on Monday, he demanded that circuit benches should be established in Turbat, Khuzdar and Loralai to dispose of cases within time to avoid lengthy judicial process which caused hardships to litigants.
Mr Wasay said representatives of Balochistan lawyers' bodies had told the prime minister in a meeting of the Pakistan Bar Council that all vacant posts of judges in the Supreme Court should be filled by promoting senior-most chief judges of high courts.
He also said the lawyers' delegation had apprised the premier of the problems faced by bar bodies and urged him to resolve the issues in accordance to the requirements of the constitution. He demanded that judges in lower courts be appointed through high courts, and not through the Balochistan Public Service Commission.
He condemned raids on the hostels of educational institutions for arresting students and stressed that the government should release all detained students and political activists as their detention without fulfilling the legal procedures were unconstitutional and unlawful.
ARMS SMUGGLING: Effective measures will be taken to check the smuggling of arms and implementation of ban on arms display throughout the province. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting held here on Monday to discuss the law and order situation in the aftermath of the Meezan Chowk bomb blast in Quetta. Chief Minister Jam Yousuf presided over the meeting.
It was observed that heavy arms were being smuggled into the provincial metropolis through unfrequented routes and the ban on arms display in Quetta and other areas of the province was also not being properly implemented by the authorities concerned.
It was decided that additional personnel of law-enforcement agencies would be deployed at check posts and crowded places. The meeting decided that nobody would be allowed to carry arms openly and action would be taken without discrimination against violators of the ban.
The meeting deplored the negative attitude of various political parties and civil societies toward the measures taken by the government for improving law and order situation. The chief minister directed the authorities concerned that only suspects should be arrested and innocent people should be forthwith released.