The Supreme Court Branch Registry, Lahore on Feb 27 and 28 disposed of 128 cases out of 148 cases.
The cases pending with the Supreme Court have hit the highest level for the first time in the country’s history.
According to a fortnightly disposal report, 42,927 cases were pending in the apex court until January 15. Significantly, pending civil cases are increasing by the day as 23,793 petitions and 9,332 appeals are still undecided.
A large number of cases is pending before the courts in Pakistan.
The former CJP expressed his ardent desire to deal with pending case in his maiden speech when he remarked that “I would also like to build some dams, a dam against undue and unnecessary delays in judicial determination of cases, a dam against frivolous litigation and a dam against fake witnesses and false testimonies and would also try to retire a debt, the debt of pending cases which must be decided at the earliest possible.”