Govt to set up separate judicial system for overseas Pakistanis:

[ghazi52]

Govt to set up separate judicial system for overseas Pakistanis: Fawad​

Dawn.com
February 15, 2022

Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry addresses a pres conference in Islamabad. — DawnNewsTV

Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry announced on Tuesday that the government had decided to set up a separate judicial system for overseas Pakistanis, an important support base of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI).

He made this announcement while addressing a press conference after a federal cabinet meeting in Islamabad.
"We [cabinet] have given approval for a separate judicial system for overseas Pakistanis, continuing our tradition to think about and work for their benefit," he said, adding that under this system, summary trials would be held for the cases of overseas Pakistanis.

The minister said an act for the implementation of this system in Islamabad had been sent to the Council of Common Interests and later, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would adopt the same law.
After this, he said, the system would be installed everywhere there was a PTI government, including Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir.

In this connection, he acknowledged that principally, expeditious trials were the right of every citizen.
"But overseas Pakistanis come from abroad ... They can't stay here for long and so this has been done for them," he explained.

'Cabinet concerned over numerous stay orders'​

Earlier in his address, Chaudhry told media persons that the cabinet had also expressed concerns over the large number of stay orders, which he said contributed to preventing the Federal Board of Revenue from collecting revenue of over Rs3 million.

He said the country was facing an "administrative crisis" due to the large number of stay orders and the law ministry had been asked to take up this matter with the chief justice of Pakistan and chief justices of high courts.

"It has been recommended that there should be a separate forum to resolve such policy issues and the cabinet hopes that the chief justice of Pakistan will present a serious point of view of the judiciary over this matter," he added.

The minister said setting up the forum would not be a "political decision" but a means to address an "administrative need".

Laws to address 'derogatory language, propaganda campaigns'​

Moreover, Chaudhry said the cabinet had decided to address the issue of "derogatory language" being used on social media and some television.

The government, he said, intended to frame laws in this regard and take strict measures.

Without specifying what he was referring to, the minister said this issue was "not just individuals but institutions and Pakistan's security".

"Propaganda campaigns are launched on such kind of issues that they pose a threat to Pakistan's national security," he said, not elaborating on this comment.

But no action could be action could be taken against those involved in such activities as these were bailable offences, he regretted, adding that the law ministry had been asked to improve laws pertaining to such matters and frame laws under which strict measures could be taken.

 

[WebMaster]

Looks like they have given up on current judicial system. It is filled with delayed tactics, corruption and favoritism.

 

[TheSolution]

"Propaganda campaigns are launched on such kind of issues that they pose a threat to Pakistan's national security," he said, not elaborating on this comment.

Have they finally woken up or is this just lip-service?

(@PakSarZameen47 )

 

[PakSarZameen47]

Have they finally woken up or is this just lip-service?

(@PakSarZameen47 )

Haha maybe our constant whining has made them listen

 

[TheSolution]

Haha maybe our constant whining has made them listen

Don't pin your hopes on anything bro, or you'll be disappointed, wait till effective action and maybe then we can celebrate

 

[PakSarZameen47]

Don't pin your hopes on anything bro, or you'll be disappointed, wait till effective action and maybe then we can celebrate

Yes inshallah things will change for better

 

[TheSolution]

Yes inshallah things will change for better

I hope the Chinese humiliate Pakistan behind the scenes about everything and this incompetence

There will certainly be change after that, and for the better

 

[PakSarZameen47]

I hope the Chinese humiliate Pakistan behind the scenes about everything and the entire country

There will certainly be change after that, and for the better

I hope I get to see this in my lifetime

 

[El Sidd]

This recipe for disaster could only be imagined by anarchists in the country who are downright hypocritical to their own political mandate and sloganeering of one nation under one judicial system.

The precedent advocated by the government amounts to national security issue for the state.

 

[Thorough Pro]

Crappy idea, instead of fixing the current system, they want to create a parallel system

 

[Mentee]

Crappy idea, instead of fixing the current system, they want to create a parallel system

Plenty of apartheid laws already exist in Pakistan so this won't be a new precedent. This whole system is conceived on pagan "ideals"

 

[SuperStar20]

Pakistan gov should setup Sharia law for overseas Pakistani. They are the most vocal about islamic values in pakistan while enjoying liberal democracy of western world. This will solve most of the pakistan foreign policy and funding issue for TTP, TLP etc.

 

[WebMaster]

Pakistan gov should setup Sharia law for overseas Pakistani. They are the most vocal about islamic values in pakistan while enjoying liberal democracy of western world. This will solve most of the pakistan foreign policy and funding issue for TTP, TLP etc.

Nice trolling.

 

[koolio]

I wonder how a separate judicial system for overseas Pakistanis would be any different to the corrupt judicial system system in Pakistan.

 

[Turingsage]

I think IK has lost the few marbles he possessed.

Mr Prime Minister, now I am really confused​

Imran Khan promised the resurrection of a Pakistan where talent and merit would rule

Imran JanFebruary 17, 2022

The writer is a political analyst. Email: imran.jan@gmail.com. Twitter @Imran_Jan

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Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry has announced that the PTI government is launching a separate judicial system for overseas Pakistanis, which will allow for speedy trials for their legal disputes. Usually, Chaudhry is witty and funny but this one felt like a slap.
One of the major reasons behind the ascendance of PTI to power was its promise to dismantle parallel justice systems, containing separate justice systems for the rich and poor. Instead of abolishing that, now there are proud announcements of going a step further and doing exactly that except this time around there is a proud label attached to this immoral and abhorrent mindset. Imran Khan promised the resurrection of a Pakistan where talent and merit would rule, where talented young people wouldn’t have to worry about rubbing shoulders with the right people in order to land a decent job, where foreigners would come to find work, and so forth.
When former US President Donald Trump announced his Muslim ban, Imran Khan lauded the decision of the American president. Khan at the time said, “I want to tell all Pakistanis today, I pray that Trump bans Pakistani visas so that we can focus on fixing our country.” In the same vein, he said, “The day we bring the merit system back to Pakistan, all our best citizens will return and work for the betterment of this country.” Citizens will now return to drive-thru court trials, not jobs.
During Khan’s election campaign, his rhetoric was, as mentioned above, for overseas Pakistanis to come back and use their talent and training in serving the homeland. However, announcing that there would be a separate judicial system to give speedy justice to overseas Pakistanis because “they can’t stay here [Pakistan] for long” runs counter to Khan’s prayer for Trump to ban Pakistanis from going to America. Does Khan want to help the Pakistani economy by keeping the overseas overseas so that the remittances remain unabated or by bringing the overseas Pakistanis back home so that their talents and training could be exploited for the homeland? Which is it?
Alas, we don’t have Aamir Khan as PK here to read Khan’s mind but if I had to guess then I’d say that he doesn’t mind giving them fast food style slick and discriminatory judiciary system, just so that they don’t stay here for long. This would confirm two things primarily: One, those who remained in their homeland for whatever reason are losers because justice for them would have to experience time dilation. Two, it confirms what PK character in that Indian movie says, that the earthlings’ words and actions are almost never in sync.
Fawad’s obnoxious announcement, which is touted as work of greatness, sounds therapeutic when it is put into perspective a little further; the young men and women in Pakistan who decided to serve their nation in whatever capacity and decided against going abroad would have to go through a slower and an almost completely rotten justice system to get justice. Those who decided to take the oath of another flag would get a business class berth toward their journey to get justice in Pakistan.
I am an overseas Pakistani and I would not want to get speedy justice while the countless poor, orphans, widows, jobless, weak and illiterate don’t even know that justice delayed is justice denied. And the saddest part is that they don’t know that they don’t know. The country cannot establish a just society based on the model of the state of Madina if the resourceful rich from overseas have access to a DHL-overnight model of justice, if you will, while the single citizenship holder local poor is killed without remorse. These words ring a bell about someone I used to know before he became the PM. Pakistan couldn’t do justice to equality, try introducing equality in justice Mr Prime Minister.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 17th, 2022.

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2343835/mr-prime-minister-now-i-am-really-confused