NACTA forms timeframe to implement judicial reforms

ISLAMABAD: The National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) has devised a timeframe to implement the National Action Plan’s (NAP) recommendations on judicial reforms.

The reforms have been prepared in consultation with the federal and provincial departments. These recommendations have been prepared keeping in view the four basic elements associated with the judicial system including police, prosecution, judiciary and laws pertaining to prisons. The recommendations will aim to reform the rules, regulations, administrative and policy matters to improve the performance of the department concerned.

These recommendations have been prepared after taking into account the suggestions which were given by the four provincial, federal, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Gilgit-Baltistan governments.



Moreover, the interior minister has directed NACTA to make sure implementation of the timeframe of the recommendations on the given time.

He also ordered the counter terrorism authority to start implementing the recommendations immediately and complete it till the end of this year.

Revamping and reforming the criminal justice system was a major point of NAP which was adopted after the 2014 Army Public School massacre in Peshawar.