Chief Justice, Mustapha Fares, Supreme Court of Morocco, said the prime objective of the judges and the court is to provide justice to the people and the provision of justice could be made in an effective manner with active co-operation of the bench and the bar.
Justice Mustapha Fares, who also held the office of the President of Morocco, expressed these views while addressing the members of Hyderabad Bar and later talking to media persons on Saturday. Among others, the Chief Justice Federal Shariat Court Justice Agha Rafique Ahmed Khan, Chief Justice Sindh High Court, Justice Musheer Alam and judges of Sindh High Court ,Justice Aqueel Ahmed Abbasi, Justice Nisar Shaikh, Justice Shafih Muhammad Siddiqui, Justice Nadeem Ahmed, District and Sessions Judge Hyderabad Amjad Bohiyo, Registrar Sindh High Court Abdul Rasool Memon, President Sindh High Court Bar Association, Hyderabad Allah Bachayo Soomro advocate, President District Bar Association Hyderabad Nisar Durrani and Honorary Consul General of Morocco at Karachi Ishtiaq Baig were also present on the occasion.
Justice Mustapha Fares said lawyers belong to a respectable profession and their job is to get justice for the people adding that getting justice for oppressed persons is the success of any lawyer. Terming the founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah a great lawyer, Justice Mustapha said that he made remarkable efforts for the creation of Pakistan.
Pakistan is an Islamic country where the people have deep love with the religion, he said, and added that both Pakistan and Morocco enjoy brotherly relations. About his visit to Pakistan, Justice Mustapha said that during recently held Judges Conference in Morocco, the Chief Justice Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan Justice Agha Rafique Ahmed Khan had invited him to visit and review the judicial system in Pakistan.
In Morocco, he said the lawyers of the country are playing their due role like a right hand of judges for getting justice for their oppressed people. Earlier on arrival at the District and Session Court Hyderabad, Justice Mustapha was accorded a rousing welcome by the judges and the lawyers. He was also briefed about the judicial system of Pakistan at Darbar Hall of the District and Sessions Court. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Morocco also inaugurated the newly constructed mosque in the Judicial Colony at Kohisar, Latifabad.