KARACHI: Supreme Court judge Justice Qazi Faez Isa, while highlighting the duty and responsibility of the judiciary within the democratic system, says that a country weakens most when any of its state institutions transgresses its jurisdiction.
“This is the duty of the judiciary to direct all the state institutions to follow democratic norms, and to make sure that none of them or any individual transgress their jurisdiction,” Justice Isa said while addressing a ceremony at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) in here today.
“This is our Quaid’s Pakistan. The country that Quaid-e-Azam envisioned as a democratic state. Let me tell you one thing that history stands witness that countries are destablised or disintegrated whenever institutions cross their limits,” he said.
Justice Isa, against whom allegations of concealing assets of his family members are levelled, also criticised former Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on suspending taxes on mobile phone cards saying that it cost the country loss of billions of rupees.
“The government lost Rs100 billion following the Supreme Court verdict taken by Justice [Mian Saqib] Nisar under which all taxes on the mobile phone prepaid cards were suspended,” he said, adding that the judiciary later realised that it was a big mistake to interfere in the matters of taxation.
“But the loss to the national exchequer cannot be recovered,” he added.
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