There's zero-tolerance for corruption in judiciary: Justice Shakirullah Jan

Senior most judge of the Supreme Court (SC) Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan on Saturday was of the view that many judges in lower judiciary were sacked for zero-tolerance towards corruption in judiciary. While addressing the 18th roll-signing ceremony of the newly-enrolled lawyers of Supreme Court, Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan advised the participants to show strong commitment to speedy justice for remedy seekers.
Later on, a press release was issued which stated that Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan encouraged the newly enrolled advocates saying, "I am quite confident that you would be putting all your efforts to assist the Bench in dispensation of justice to facilitate the litigants and civil society and would work for supremacy of Constitution, Rule of Law, upholding the independence of judiciary".
As many as 65 lawyers including 4 woman advocates' registration documents were signed by Justice Jan. However, the number of recently enrolled advocates of the apex court from Punjab 33, from Balochistan 10, from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 21 and capital territory Islamabad one.
The advocates who singed the roll included Munir Ahmed Khan, Arshad Jehangir Jhoja, Haroon Irshad Janjua, Raja Ikram Ameen Minhas, Faiz Muhammad Sabir, Sh. Waqar-ul-Haq, Saeed-ur-Rehman, Muhammad Waqar Rana, Nasimullah, Fida Gul, Chaudhry Muhammad Younas Ghumman, Muhammad Jameel Khan, Muhammad Sharif, abdul Maabood Khattak, Abdul Rehman Qadar, Jehan Zeb, Chaudhry Anwaar-ul-Haq Arif, Zakiuddin, Khalid Anwar Afridi, Syed Muhammad Anwar, Syed Hamad Ali Shah, Muhammad Sayar, Naveed Maqsood, Fairdullah Khan Kundi, Ms Neelam Azra Khan, Sikandar Rashid, Raja Zahur Ahmed, Ghulam Shoaib Hassan, Chaudhry Din Muhammad, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Ashraf Qureshi, Faridullah Khan, Sabit-Ullah Khan, Mrs Kausar Iqbal Bhatti, Muhammad Zubair Saeed, Ms Samina Mahmood, Syed Riaz-ul-Hassan Gillani, Muhammad Naveed Rana, Malik Muhammad Tariq Rajwana, Miss Tanveer Zehra, Sahir Mahmood Bhatti, Muhammad Wasim Shahab, Waseem Majid Malik, Shahzad Rabbani, Malik Waqar Haider Awan, Arshad Ali Mahar, Ihsanullah, Muhammad Javaid Kasuri, Sahibzada Muhammad Ibrahim, Talaat Waheed Khan, Muhammad Khurshid, Maqbool Ahmed Bhatti, Khalid Ahmed Baloch, Mehar Ahmad Bakhsh Bharwana, Chaudhry Muhammad Asghar Saroha, Abdul Latif Hanjra, Syed Saleem Akhtar, Muhammad Ewaz Zehri, Anwar-ul-Haq, Nauroz Khan Mengal, Umar Farooq, Muhammad Usman Yousafzai, Qazi Ali Jamil, Malik Bilal Anwar Kasi and Muhammad Akhtar Hussain Khawaja.