Why the anxiety in the lawyers' community of Islamabad?
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00:00Viewers, today we have a joint announcement of Islamabad High Court, Bar Association and Islamabad Bar.
00:06Apart from the judges of Islamabad High Court, they have demanded not to appoint any other judge as Chief Justice.
00:12If the Chief Justice is appointed from the judges of Islamabad High Court,
00:16there will be an attack on the freedom and autonomy of the court.
00:19This is their joint announcement.
00:21And the advisers will start the convention and the formal movement.
00:26This is the story.
00:28Mr. Chaudhary, I would like to ask Mr. Hassan about the transfer of Mr. Sirfaz Dogar from Lahore High Court.
00:41Article 200 of the Pakistan Constitution allows it.
00:45This is not an unnecessary thing.
00:47And it should be done.
00:49If there is a rotation, you have to give justice to the people.
00:54What is your condition?
00:56You have to decide according to the law.
00:58You should not be concerned about serving here or Lahore.
01:02You should also go to Balochistan.
01:04The benches of Lahore High Court will be in Multan, Bahawalpur, Pindi.
01:11There will be a rotation everywhere.
01:13This is the only High Court in Islamabad.
01:16This is the principal seat.
01:18I think there should be a rotation.
01:20If you want to serve the whole country, your position is a constitutional post.
01:26You are a judge of a legal court.
01:28You should go to another court and serve.
01:31This should be done in the High Court.
01:33There should be no confusion.
01:34And regarding Justice Sirfaz Dogar.
01:37If there is a demand for justice beyond Balochistan, it should be done there.
01:41I think two judges will come.
01:43Not just from Lahore.
01:44A judge from Sindh High Court will also come.
01:46This is my information.
01:47A judge from Lahore and a judge from Sindh High Court will come.
01:49And Chief Justice will not be the senior most.
01:52He will be one of the three.
01:53He should not be a threat.
01:55That is the will of the government.
01:56Of course, the executive has a majority.
01:58Viewers, Hassan mentioned the oath.
02:01So, regarding the sanctity of the oath,
02:03Today, Respected Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, Senior Peonate Judge,
02:07He delivered a speech in Karachi.
02:10What did he say?
02:11When a man takes an oath,
02:13he is holding his own self in his own hand like water.
02:17And if he opens his fingers,
02:18then he needn't hope to find himself again.
02:44But don't leave the oath.
02:45I remember Iqbal.
02:47He spoke very well.
02:49I would like to recite a couplet.
02:51Both of them have departed.
02:53In the same space,
02:55Kargaz, which is called a vulture,
02:57Kargaz's world is different.
02:59Shaheen's world is different.
03:01Kargaz's world is different.
03:03Shaheen's world is different.
03:04And, of course, Senior Peonate Judge,
03:06Respected Judge Mansoor Ali Shah,
03:07Respected Judge Gulamshan.
03:08In the case of the High Court,
03:10the decision was made on behalf of the 16 and 13 judges.
03:13In the whole country,
03:15in Pakistan,
03:16obviously, the whole country is under it.
03:18So, when a decision was made through the Parliament
03:21that mutual consent,
03:23Chief Justice Muthalqa,
03:25so if it is transferred,
03:27then there is no problem.
03:28So, what is it, Mr. Gulamshan?
03:30What is the argument in this?
03:32So, what was the problem before
03:34that you are now removing it?
03:36You are creating a mess.
03:38It should be that at the lower level,
03:40where the judiciary is functional
03:44up to the headquarters,
03:46and no one has to come to Islamabad,
03:48Lahore or Karachi.
03:50But what is this,
03:52that judges will be taken from Lahore to Islamabad.
03:56So, what is the fault of the competent judges
03:58of Islamabad?
04:00So, this is more, more,
04:02I still don't understand,
04:04like I said about PIKA,
04:06I still don't understand
04:08what they want to achieve.
04:10Neither the results of the 26th Tarweem,
04:14nor the things they are doing now,
04:16they have gone astray,
04:18that is,
04:20they have assumed
04:22that they will sit till the Day of Judgment
04:24and no one will ask.
04:26So, they are sadly mistaken.
04:28There is a counter-argument on this.
04:30I will come.
04:32There is a counter-argument.
04:34We have to move to the next story.
04:36There is a counter-argument
04:38that there is provincial autonomy.
04:40All the branches of the Supreme Court
04:42work in the country.
04:44The provincial high courts
04:46should be within the province.