Country cannot progress without supremacy of law: PM
Pakistan
Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan said that a country cannot progress without supremacy of law
ISLAMABAD, (APP): Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday terming effective dispensation of justice as the State’s responsibility said the government’s reforms in the civil and criminal procedure code would ensure speedy justice.
Addressing here at an event on Criminal Law and Justice Reforms, the prime minister said the massive amendments would help bring revolution in the criminal judicial system and simplify procedure for common man in way to justice.
The prime minister said that for the first time, the government was making changes in the law made in British rule to bring improvement to dispensation of justice.
He said no government in the past ever thought about reforming the century-old laws and maintained status quo and accommodated the elite.
He said the civil law reforms were a step towards ensuring rule of law in line with Islam’s first socio-welfare State of Medina.
He quoted a hadith of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) emphasizing that many earlier nations were destroyed where there was separate laws for the powerful and the weak.
Imran Khan said ensuring rule of law would encourage foreign investors and the overseas Pakistanis to invest their money in Pakistan.
