Judiciary is ready to save the country again: PHC CJ

Radio Meezan to serve as an ‘online legal aid’.

PESHAWAR: Many forces have been trying to disrupt polls, but the judiciary is ready to thwart all those attempts, said Peshawar High Court (PHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Dost Muhammad Khan on Wednesday.

While addressing a gathering at the inauguration ceremony of Radio Meezan at the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Judicial Academy (KPJA), CJ Dost Muhammad Khan promised free and transparent elections urging people to cast their vote to the candidate who is devoted to working for the poor and take this country out of its current state of turmoil.

Justice Mian Fasihul Mulk, Justice Irshad Qaisar, Justice Shahjahan Akhunzada, Justice Asadullah Khan Chamkani and PHC registrar Subhan Sher were also present on the occasion.

CJ Khan said that although the judiciary was not allowed to interfere, they were compelled to because “the two constitutional limbs of the state were not delivering while the country was moving towards destruction.”

“People are being brought from abroad to disturb the election process,” he said, asking the lawyers to be ready in case of another movement requiring them to “save the country”.



He said democracy was the only solution to the country’s problems, most of which were brought about by bad governance of past rulers who brought “guns and gun powder instead of education in the country.”

Talking about Radio Meezan, CJ said the project will hold programmes by scholars and experts to educate people about their rights.

Earlier, Meezan’s Additional District and Sessions Station Director Amir Nazir gave a briefing about the objectives of the new channel, adding it will provide a forum for people to discuss disputes and seek legal advice for their problems. He said the channel will work as an online legal aid.

Nazir added that through the programme, peoples’ voices will reach the PHC Human Rights Directorate.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 21^st, 2013.