Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami Senator Sirajul Haq has stressed upon the government to openly accept the supremacy of the judiciary and prove the same through its conduct. While talking to a delegation of journalists from Karachi at Mansoora on Tuesday, he said the government's bid to weaken the apex court, keeping it under pressure and hurling threats to the judiciary was simply intolerable. He wondered what message the rulers wanted to convey to the society.
Sirajul Haq said countries could not be run without accepting the rule of the law and the constitution. He said if individuals thought themselves above the law and institutions, the entire system of justice would collapse. He further said although the government claimed to have trust in the institutions, its actions were contradictory.
The JI chief said so far, the government was busy in handling the cases against the ousted Prime Minister and his defense and was least interested in the affairs of the state. He said it had become the habit of the rulers to pressurize the superior courts and to ridicule the decisions of the learned judges of the superior courts. JI chief said lowering the image of the judiciary and hurling threats to its members would only destroy any society.
Siraj warned that unless and until the supremacy of the law and the constitution was accepted by heart and the institutions were allowed to function with full autonomy and independently, the current situation of uncertainty would not end. The JI chief pointed out that the report of the government's committee tasked to trace the people responsible for the abolition of the legislators' oath in the Khatm-e-Nabuwat was not out so far and nobody had been punished for that.