The chief justice requested the reports after taking suo motu notice on an application, filed with the Supreme Court Human Rights Cell.
The application was filed by Advocate Nadeem A Shaikh and others, stating that seven persons had died on June 8 after a fire broke out inside a foreign goods’ company’s cold storage during the militants attack on the airport.
The applicants stated that several days have passed but no legal, moral and financial assistance has been provided by the government or any other organisation to the families of the deceased persons.
The applicants pleaded to the apex court to order action against the authorities concerned, directing them to give compensation to the victims’ families at the earliest.
Taking notice on the plea, CJ Jillani ordered that a “report be called from chairman Civil Aviation Authority and Secretary Ministry of Interior Islamabad within two weeks.”
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Those complaining about 'slow' action vs 'prompt action'. The CJ waited for the government, law enforcement and local judicial authorities to respond appropriately to the incident. Failing to do so, he has initiated a suo-moto proceeding on his own. That is proper judicial process. Instead of jumping on the first day for ratings and public approval, he waited out to let the system work. If he sees that the system did not appropriately respond to the Lahore incident, he would probably initiate proceedings. But probably not yet, as the system needs to be given time to work and can't be run from the top. Also, the Lahore incident has a high court judge proceeding with a judicial tribunal inquiry and a Joint Investigation Team working on it as well.
A very prompt notice! Well done CJ! Justice will be delivered ASAP! Right? By the way who is Gullu Butt? And Kathy Pacific has already announced they will not be flying to Pakistan anymore, what will be the implications of not allowing Emirate Airline to land in Islamabad on Pakistan image and economy! Have you heard about this incident that happened in our country too?
How about taking notice of the Model Town attack? Why sis he quite over whatever n league does?
Just woke up from slumber. Since then, people have been dragged through the streets of Lahore and shot in child blood. I wonder what would prompt an action there.
Seriously.