LAHORE
The Supreme Court’s Justice Qazi Faez Isa urged the public to criticise individuals instead of institutions in his speech on Saturday at this year’s Asma Jahangir Conference taking place in Lahore.
“I would only request that you don’t judge us as an institution because there is good in the institution; there is also bad in the institution,” he said while reminding the attendees that as the public, they are the ones who can judge the judges “individually”.
The justice emphasised: “Judge us as judges, condemn me as a judge, do not condemn the Supreme Court.”
He added that Pakistan needed the judiciary, the executive, the military and more than anything else, it needed to be led by the elected representative of the people. “Pakistan needs democracy,” he said.
He highlighted the importance of the public’s role after talking about the “tumultuous” political history of Pakistan and listing the various methods through which prime ministers in the country’s history have been assassinated, removed, and hanged — including Liaquat Ali Khan, Khwaja Nazimuddin and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
