Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has directed to prepare a package of constitutional and legal amendments for judicial reforms and said that a plan of action should be created to facilitate the civil and criminal laws for the convenience of the common man.
The first meeting of the Special Committee for Legal and Judicial Reforms was held under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, in which Federal Minister for Law and Justice Azam Nazir Tarar, President of the Supreme Court Bar Shehzad Shaukat, Pakistan Bar Council representative Ahsan Bhawan, former Law Minister Zahid Hamid, senior jurist Shahid Hamid and Attorney General Mansoor Awan and other senior officials attended.
The Prime Minister directed the committee to formulate a plan of action to simplify civil and criminal laws for the convenience of the common man and prepare a package of constitutional and legal amendments for judicial reforms.
The Prime Minister said that it is desired that justice can be provided quickly and easily to the people and directed the committee to make tax matters easier for the people, especially the business class.
Shahbaz Sharif also directed the committee to submit legal proposals to make the tax collection system effective.
He expressed concern over the pending tax collections of more than 2400 billion rupees in Pakistan due to injunctions of courts and tribunals and directed the committee to submit an interim report on financial and tax matters within 2 weeks.
The Prime Minister directed that the report provided by the committee should be sent to the concerned ministries after consulting the political allies.
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2024-05-13 14:24:29