Blames Centre for pocketing $400m loan meant for flood victims
Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has reiterated his party’s firm stance to bring judicial reforms without accepting pressure from any side.
“This is not possible that we do not accomplish a necessary task by succumbing to someone’s pressure,” said Bilawal while addressing an event of the People’s Lawyers Forum in Quetta on Monday.
He claimed that the PPP was told to withdraw the recently proposed constitutional amendments or in another case, it should take back the 18th Amendment.
The PPP chief claimed that his party had achieved successes via 18th constitutional amendment, including by renaming Northwest Frontier Province as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province among others. He said that the existing mechanism of judicial appointments was not in favour for the nation but only for judges. He stressed the necessity of reforms citing the existing procedure of appointments in the judiciary.
He further emphasised forming a parliamentary committee comprising the treasury and the opposition lawmakers to decide on judges’ appointment. Bilawal suggested that a judge would not be appointed if the recommended name fails to win a majority in the committee.
He went on to say that the country’s judicial system could not serve justice to the victims of terrorism and also highlighted the huge pendency of cases in the different courts.
The PPP chairman advocated the formation of a constitutional court in the country with equal representation of all provinces. He added that the time has come to rectify the judicial shortcomings.
He was of the view that not only in Islamabad, constitutional courts should also be established in provinces which is a necessary step to dispatch timely justice on a provincial level.
Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, stated that he secured a $400 million loan for flood victims, which the federal government has kept for itself.
Whether it’s the $400 million World Bank loan or ongoing World Bank projects in Sindh, or the European Union’s announced aid of €700 million, Bilawal stated that he collected all this funding as Pakistan’s foreign minister and made appeals for help to the world alongside the Prime Minister.
He mentioned that housing and road restoration projects are ongoing in Sindh with the cooperation of the World Bank.
