Naye Chief Justice Yahya Afridi Ke Liye Kya Challenges Hain??

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00:00I am asking a very basic question to all the contributors in the program today.

00:05What will be the decision on the basis of which Qazi Faizeesa will be remembered?

00:13What is his legacy, his tenure of one year and ten months?

00:20Your question is absolutely right and the judge's legacy is his judgments.

00:28It is not what he said at what time, it is not what remarks he gave, but what he wrote.

00:37I am seeing his judgments as a judge of Balochistan.

00:42I am seeing his judgments as a judge of the Supreme Court.

00:46And the way he steered the court as a Chief Justice.

00:51In Balochistan, he spoke about the environment, women's rights, schools and many such things.

01:02You see, there was no High Court at that time, there were no sub-judges.

01:07So he did the Balochistan High Court.

01:09He removed nine stains.

01:12It is not an easy task.

01:14Especially for a person who has no experience of working as a judge.

01:20So I think that is a legacy that he did.

01:24Secondly, the case that took place here in the Supreme Court,

01:30there is a case of Hubara Bastard, in which he worked very crazily.

01:36And he was overruled there.

01:39But that again is a judgment in which he spoke about many reforms and did everything.

01:47There is a case in front of you, the case of the protest.

01:50In that, what he highlighted is that it is the fundamental right of everyone to protest.

02:01It is the fundamental right to get your point heard and to take part in the political process.

02:07But there are some restrictions.

02:10So this is another landmark judgment, which I would say.

02:14Then his contribution, the case that came to the Military Courts,

02:19where he defined what is due process,

02:24and what is military justice and justice in the armed courts, he compared it.

02:30So these are all things.

02:32Then in 63A, he did such a wrong thing.

02:37And why are we forgetting that the reference of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto,

02:41about him, he was in trial for many years.

02:46So you will see that I saw one more characteristic.

02:50That is, his list used to be exhausted.

02:54He used to listen to the case till the last case.

02:58This is a big thing.

02:59This point has come.

03:00Now my next question will be, what are the big challenges for the new Chief Justice?

03:04Because we are seeing that the court is more divided than before.

03:07When Mr. Bandayal left, there was a clear gap in the court.

03:10Now that gap has become the clearest.

03:12What other challenges are there for the new Chief Justice?

03:15Yes, look, the new Chief Justice, I am sure, I hope,

03:19because I am also seeing him when he was in Peshawar High Court.

03:25When he was Assistant Advocate General, I saw him working.

03:29I saw him working as a lawyer.

03:31I saw him working as a judge of the High Court.

03:34And the way he brought reforms in KPK, as a Chief Justice,

03:41and the induction of civil judges and all these things,

03:44this is a worthy challenge.

03:46Now he will take that experience forward, I hope.

03:50The first thing is to call the full court,

03:54to hold meetings of the full court.

03:57And I think that just like the meeting of the Cabinet is held every Tuesday,

04:04similarly, the meeting of the full court should also be held on a separate day.

04:08All the judges, you are the judge,

04:10you should sit and look at the activities of the previous days,

04:15and decide the path forward.

04:17So all these things together,

04:20it is very easy.

04:22Remember, collective decisions are better decisions.

04:27No doubt. Thank you very much.

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