Essential legislation enabling ADRS would be further extended by Sindh Assembly: Wahab

KARACHI: Sindh Judicial Academy in collaboration with Legal Aid Society on Saturday organised International Conference on Alternative Dispute Resolution at a local hotel. The conference aim was to focus on mediation, specifically including regional advances from around Asia.

It shared a range of success stories of formal Alternative Dispute Resolution System (ADRS) from both the national and international level so that newly trained Saalis members of Sindh could benefit in terms of enhancing their understanding and interest in mediation.

Speaking on the occasion Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister on Information & Archives, Law and Anti-Corruption, Barrister Murtaza Wahab said that, the provincial assembly of Sindh at the start of the current year passed a bill through which the role of the Saalis was made persuasive.

He said that Sindh was the first province to pass such legislation.

The Adviser said that the legislation was done to empower the role of the mediator and to facilitate the people who wanted out of court settlements.

He said that the sole aim of this legislation was to provide justice to the common men of the society as the Sindh government believed in this reality that a society with injustices could not exist.

Wahab said that the provincial assembly had been playing its due role for long and now it was up to the honorable Judges to achieve what they cherished the most.

The Adviser said that sustainable change could only be achieved when all three pillars of the government could work together in conformity to challenges to bring about the solutions to the problems that were being faced by the people of the country or the province.

He ensured that any executive intervention if and when needed to make the process of alternate dispute resolution more effective would be provided by the Sindh government without ado.

Honorable Chief Justice of Sindh High Court, Justice Ahmed Ali M. Shaikh, Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid, former Judge of Supreme Court of Pakistan and Chairperson Legal Aid Society, Justice Khilji Arif Husain, former Judge of Supreme Court of Pakistan and Director General of Sindh Judicial Academy, Justice Ghulam Rabban, former Judge of Supreme Court of Pakistan, Khalid Husain Shahani, and District and Session Judge of Karachi West also spoke to the conference.

Later while speaking to the media Wahab said that the track record of the Sindh government a propos essential legislation was exemplary.

The Barrister said that few of the Police officers instead of focusing on their job of policing had started formulating policy framework.

The Adviser said that the police officers should focus on maintaining law and order which was their principle job. He deplored that the situation of law and order had again deteriorated in the metropolis.

The street crime was again on the rise, he added.

He regretted that Irshad Ranjhani was shot at overtly but Police did the job of mere spectators. Wahab said that during the two days of the Police Conference where all the high ups of police were present, five murders were reported across the province.

The adviser said that the real job of the Police was to do policing and maintain the law and order rather than attending the conferences.