CM Sindh Qaim Ali Shah. PHOTO: EXPRESS
He was addressing the oath-taking ceremony of the Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA), Hyderabad chapter, on Monday night. "For the sake of progress and prosperity in Pakistan, all segments of society ought to protect the Constitution," he said. "Democracy will help the country progress and develop."
According to Shah, when former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto introduced the 1973 Constitution, he wanted the insertion of four quintessential provisions. "First was that the Constitution should be Islamic and no law against Islam would be made part of it," he claimed. "The second [provision] was democracy, third, parliamentary system and fourth, a federal system, in which all the four provinces were given equal rights." He added that he was part of the committee, which, under senior lawyers, drafted the Constitution of 1973.
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Shah supported the induction of lawyers as judges in the Sindh High Court, adding that he personally asked the chief justice of the SHC to keep the proportion of lawyers in the induction higher. He expressed hope that like the medical profession, female lawyers will outnumber their male counterparts in the legal profession as well. The bar's president, Advocate Ayaz Tunio, elaborated the financial needs of SHCBA, Hyderabad, and over a dozen district bars in its jurisdiction, after which, Shah announced a Rs10 million financial grant for the bar.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 4th, 2016.
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