Sunday, January 19, 2014

Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry



Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry retired as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on 11th December, 2013. Much has been said and written about him. So I shall just point out what has been left out by others.

Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and his fellow judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan revolutionized Pakistani judiciary by shunning precedents of English case law and trying to find clues in the Pakistani Constitution and precedents in records of edicts and fatwas of Islamic scholars, statesmen and judges. It is not surprising that the anglophile section of the Pakistani legal and judicial circles hate Retired Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and his colleagues.

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