Dawn.com reports on these rather amazing numbers illustrating the crisis in the Pakistani legal system at the moment, especial;ly when read some of the spurious reasons the advocates actually go on strike for.
Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Mansoor Ali Shah said on Sunday that the court system suffered this year because of 3,840 strikes by lawyers in just 10 months.
As a result of the strikes, around 2.2 million cases were not heard in Punjab, Justice Shah said. “0.24 million cases could have been decided according to our calculations had the strikes not taken place,” he added.
According to the judge, of the 3 million cases, 2.1 were wrapped up by the courts this year while 12 million are still pending.
While addressing a ceremony in Lahore, he said that strikes are justified when they are done for a purpose. The chief justice pointed out that in reality, most of these strikes are called for reasons devoid of substance, such as “situation worsening in Turkey or United States”.
