CJP calls for in-sync efforts by all institutions to defeat terrorism

CJP Saqib Nisar says enemy adamant to hamper Pakistan’s economic progress

QUETTA: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar has called for concentrated efforts by all quarters to defeat terrorism as the enemy is using it as a means to disrupt public order and hamper economic growth in Pakistan.

Speaking at a reference in honour of the 73 people, including 56 eminent lawyers, martyred last year, the chief justice said that terrorism was a pressing matter and politicians, lawyers, judiciary and security agencies should join hands and play an effective role in defeating the menace.

He also strongly condemned last year’s terrorist attack in Quetta, where a suicide bomber struck a huge gathering of people, dominated by the lawyers’ community, when they assembled at the Civil Hospital to receive the body of late Bilal Anwar Kasi, a leading lawyer of Balochistan. Kasi was himself ambushed and gunned down by a terrorist.



“I find no words to pay tribute to the martyred of Quetta,” he said stressing that the martyred played a vital role in extending justice to the needy people of Balochistan.

He specifically advised senior lawyers to train their juniors to fill the gap left by the loss of experienced lawyers.

“Balochistan lost its finest legal minds in a single incident and the society, mainly the senior lawyers, will have to compensate it,” the CJP said. He said proper training of young lawyers was essential to provide affordable justice to the people.

Justice Saqib remembered meeting the mourning families when he visited the hospital a day after the attack.



He said that the justice system is divided between the bench and the bar and he sees the latter to be ‘divided, crippled and paralysed.’

“Just by obtaining a law degree, one cannot become a lawyer,” the chief justice said.

He then moved on to note that “terrorism should be defeated for the integrity and solidarity of Pakistan”, adding, “If terrorism is not checked and defeated, future generations would find nothing in this country.”

He underscored that the country had to fight terrorists as a united and strong nation and all the security agencies will have to play their role in the fight.