Its shameful that Khawaja Sharif accepted this residence and Shahbaz Sharif yet again trammelled all morals and rules.
RAWALPINDI: This is with response to the article published on December 23, “Accommodating for security: Permanent official residence given to former chief justice” by Anwer Sumra.
It is shameful that Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khawaja Sharif accepted this residence and Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif yet again trammelled all morals and rules. People like the judge have hardly ever been the target of terrorists or hired assassins; it has always been the common folk who are abused. If anyone needs accommodation and protection it is the common man in Lahore. Why doesn’t the chief minister allot houses to surviving victims of bomb attacks? I am also distressed that someone like Justice Ramday, who is carving out a tough, no-nonsense style for himself in the Supreme Court, chooses to benefit from ‘two’ official houses at the expense of poor taxpayers. Rather than the much-touted independent judiciary, the burning need is for an honest and competent judiciary that upholds the highest standards of personal and professional integrity.
Wasif M Khan
Published in The Express Tribune, December 24th, 2010.
