Citing the example of China for development, Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar said on Tuesday that the country was able to do so after sacking hundreds of corrupt state ministers.
Someone texted me in the morning on how China had developed as a country; it progressed by sacking nearly 400 corrupt ministers and ensuring action against all those responsible, the top judge remarked.
While hearing the Bani Gala encroachment case, the top judge ordered that an approval from the federal Cabinet on regularisation of local population and relevant laws may be acquired within a fortnight.
Justice Nisar said that illegal construction must not take place, and ordered action against those responsible.
On Monday, the CJP said the judiciary intervenes in the government’s matters because the government won’t complete tasks. He further said if the government does their work accordingly, the judiciary won’t have to intervene.
Last week, the top court clarified that it didn’t attribute the word faryadi (plaintiff) to the recent meeting with the premier, after the alleged remarks drew ire of some quarters.Chinese authorities have punished more than 210,000 officials for corruption in the first half of 2017, according to the Communist Party's corruption watchdog.
In a statement on Thursday, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said anti-corruption institutions received 1.31 million complaints and opened 260,000 cases this year.
Of that number, "210,000 people have been punished for breaking the code of conduct", the CCDI said on its website.
They include 38 senior officials from ministries and provincial administrations, and more than 1,000 at the prefecture levels, the CCDI said.The watchdog also announced that Yao Gang, the former vice chairman of China's securities regulator, will be prosecuted for offences including taking bribes and "destroying the order of capital markets".
President Xi Jinping has made attacking corruption a central issue since taking leadership of the ruling Communist Party in late 2012.
Critics of Xi's anti-corruption campaign have long accused it of being an instrument to sideline political rivals.
A former top general and a past member of the party's all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee have been imprisoned under the campaign.
'Discipline violations'
Sun Zhengcai, a senior official who was considered a contender for promotion at the party's congress in autumn and as a possible future premier, was abruptly removed on Saturday from office and placed under investigation by the CCDI for "discipline violations".
Wang Qishan, the head of the CCDI, wrote on Monday that party political culture remained "unhealthy" and governance was weak, even after five years of renewed effort to stamp out corruption.
"Party concepts are faint, organisation is lax and discipline flabby. The root is in the party's internal political life being not serious and unhealthy," he wrote in the party's official People's Daily.
Xinhua, China's state news agency, reported that 415,000 people were disciplined for violating the party's code of conduct and other offences last year.
Advocate Naeem Bukhari on Tuesday expressed reservations on a picture of Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar with a few air hostesses, Express News reported.
A three-judge bench headed by the CJP was hearing various cases including one during which Bukhari, a member of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the party’s representative in the Panama papers case, referred to a recent photograph of the chief justice circulating on the social media and voiced his concern.
Responding to the advocate’s statement, Justice Nisar inquired in a joyful manner why Bukhari was ‘jealous’. “You are encroaching on our rights,” replied the lawyer.
Referring to the air hostesses as daughters, the chief justice remarked that “sometimes you cannot say no to daughters.”
The image in question was taken during a Karachi to Islamabad flight where Pakistan International Airline (PIA) air hostesses approached the CJP for a photo. Justice Nisar complied with the request. It has since gone viral on the social media.
