Pre-Service Training (PST) for the 42 newly-recruited Civil Judges-cum-Judicial Magistrates/Illaqa Qazis was held in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Judicial Academy (KPJA).
Honorable the Chief Justice, Peshawar High Court Peshawar (PHC), Justice Waqar Ahmad Seith was the Chief Guest at a simple but graceful concluding ceremony. It was attended by Khawaja Wajihuddin, Registrar Peshawar High Court, Muhammad Zeb Khan, PSO to Chief Justice Peshawar High Court, Muhammad Bashir, the Director General of the Academy, Dr. Shakeel Azam Awan, Dean faculty, Ashfaque Taj, Senior Director Admin, Amjad Zia Siddiqui, Senior Director Research & Publication, Inamullah Wazir, Director Instruction-I and Ahmed Iftikhar, Director Instruction-II. The parents of some of the newly-recruited Civil Judges also attended it.
Honorable the Chief Guest congratulated the participants on the successful completion of the pre-service training course. He remarked that Judicial Officers have an onerous responsibility to deliver speedy justice to the people. He emphasized that the newly-appointed Judges are expected to perform their duties with devotion and dedication. He applauded the faculty and the administration of the Academy on conducting the training course with professional zeal and zest.
Muhammad Bashir, the Director-General of the Academy, while talking on the occasion, stated that despite the short duration of the training, the faculty designed extensive course work covering almost all theoretical and practical aspects of civil and criminal administration of justice. The Academy, he further remarked, enlightened the participants concerning the very important part of the judicial office, that is to say, judicial conduct and ethics. He disclosed that it was for the first time that the Judicial Officers taken to the National Institute of Management at Lahore for the 3-day training. They were also visited Punjab Forensic Science Agency to have first-hand knowledge regarding the working of in the facilitation of the administration of justice through applied forensic sciences. The visit, he added, was followed by 2-day training at Shariah Academy, International Islamic University Islamabad.