Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan has said that it was one of the top priorities of Prime Minister Imran Khan and the government to provide instant and inexpensive justice to people. He expressed these views while chairing a meeting to review progress on legal reforms pertaining to criminal law.
Special Assistant to the Chief Minister Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif, Chief Secretary, Additional Chief, Law Secretary, Advocate General, and other concerned officials attended the meeting. The meeting was briefed about various aspects of reforms into criminal law and informed that the provincial government had completed most of the work of reforming the criminal law and it was added that a strategy for the implementation of these reforms was being prepared and all stakeholders were being consulted in this regard.
He added that reforms in criminal law were essential to provide speedy justice to the people, adding the chief secretary himself should oversee the entire process of these legal reforms. He directed that the entire reform process should be finalized within a month.
He said full consultation with all stakeholders including the judiciary should be ensured before the implementation of these reforms. He added that the provincial government would provide all necessary financial resources for the implementation of these reforms on a priority basis.
The participants were briefed about the various aspects of the proposed reforms in Criminal Procedure Code and it was told that the provincial government had completed most of the work on necessary reforms in CrPC whereas a strategy was also being prepared for the implementation of those reforms in consultation with all the stakeholders.
Special Assistant to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister on Information Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif on Tuesday underlined the need for the media to play its due role for protecting rights of children.
“We need to make collective efforts and especially the media which play key role in identify problems in a society has to play its part for ensuring rights of children,” he said while addressing a press conference at Peshawar Press Club to inform media about reforms on Child’s rights laws introduced by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government.
