Fawad urges judiciary to take stock of its declining reputation in world 

Islamabad: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Sunday urged the judiciary to take stock of its rapidly declining reputation in the world rankings.

Taking to the social media micro-blogging website twitter, the information minister said that the question raised by Minister for Law and Justice Farogh Naseem that if judges were not responsible for the assets of their wives and children, then how was it possible to hold politicians and bureaucrats accountable?

Fawad Chaudhry further maitnianed that the new chief justice would face this challenge when he would be sworn in.

فروغ نسیم کا سوال اہم ہے کہ اگر جج صاحبان اپنے بیوی بچوں کے اثاثوں کے ذمہ دار نہیں تو پھر سیاستدانوں اور بیوروکریٹس کا احتساب کیسے ممکن ہے؟ عدلیہ کو عالمی رینکنگز میں اپنی تیزی سے گرتی ساکھ کا جائزہ لینے کی ضرورت ہے نئے چیف جسٹس جب حلف لیں گے تو انھیں اس چیلنج کا سامنا ہو گا

— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) January 30, 2022