KARACHI: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has asked all political parties to announce their repudiation of criminal elements among their ranks.
The Chief Justice remarked this during the hearing of the suo motu case on law and order situation in Karachi here on Wednesday.
The five- member bench of the apex court comprising Chief Justice Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Justice Sarmad Jalal Usmani, Justice Amir Hani Muslim and Justice Ghulam Rabbani is hearing the suo motu case on law and order situation in Karachi.
"After the Supreme Court's decision on the suo motu case, would alert the government and that the law and order situation in Karachi would also improve," the Chief Justice remarked during the proceeding.
President SHC Bar Council Anwar Mansoor during his arguments submitted that linguistic, political and religious issues are behind the incidents of violence in the city.
To this the CJ did not agreed and said, there is no Shia-Sunni or any other ethnic dispute in Karachi.
Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2011
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