To provide the aggrieved citizens with free legal assistance, the Transparency International Pakistan (TIP) on Wednesday launched an Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre (ALDC) in Karachi. Speaking at a press conference at Karachi Press Club, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Syed Adil Gilani said that TIP requests the public to lodge genuine complaints and inform the centre of irregularities of any nature with solid proofs.
He said that the TIP expects that the restored Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP), Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will do justice, as bravely as he had been doing during the martial law regime of Pervez Musharraf. TIP will compile complaints, which will be sent to the CJP for his appraisal on the issues being faced by the people, besides issuing a report after every six months about the numbers of disposed of complaints by the Supreme Court, Gilani pointed out.
He said that on the request of TIP, the CJP announced on March 24 to make the judiciary free of corruption. He criticised the role of judiciary in the past, saying that had not the judiciary validated the martial laws, the unconstitutional governments would have never ruled the country for long.
Adil Gilani enumerated the aims of the ALAC that include empowerment of citizens to help them access to easy justice and work for resolution of their problems. The centre is providing legal advises and assistance to citizens, undertaking advocacy for broader reforms, taking up the corruption cases with the concerned authorities, besides analysing and disseminating the data collected periodically.
The core purpose of opening the centre, he said, is to fight against corruption by involving citizens, provide a deeper understanding to the citizens as to how corruption works practically. The Chairman, TIP hoped that the newly established centre will become an effective tool to curb corruption in the country. He appealed to the citizens to play their role in helping the centre to achieve its goals.
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