Pakistan, Jan. 17 -- There are around 40,000 cases pending hearings only in the Supreme Court as the 25th Chief Justice of Pakistan leaves office on Thursday (today). The number runs into hundreds of thousands if cases pending hearings in lower courts are added to the tally. Our judiciary ranks abysmally among its peers in the region. The World Justice Project's Rule of Law Index placed Pakistan at the rock bottom among six countries whose civil justice system was assessed in the region, and at 105th spot out of 113 countries worldwide.
This is the legacy honourable CJ Mian Saqib Nisar leaves behind. The fact of the matter is that our judicial system was hardly an efficient institution when he took office. However, the priorities he set ou...