ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice of Pakistan on Wednesday took suo moto notice of the Quetta blast and fixed the case for hearing on September 20.
The notice has been issued to chief secretary Balochistan.
Pakistan Bar Council, former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, had urged Justice Jamali to take suo moto notice of the incident.
Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali took the suo moto under Article 184(3) of the Constitution on a note of Registrar which containing the details of the Quetta Bomb Blast. In the August 8 tragic incident 73 people, most of lawyers, lost their lives and over 104 got serious injuries.
The note further stated that the Quetta incident has raised many doubts about the state of governance in Balochistan in particular and the country in general. The way the planned incident took place brings into question the efficacy of the state machinery. “Lack of security arrangements, despite past precedents points at the miserable failure of provincial government and law enforcement agencies to avert the tragic incident.” The lack of proper security arrangements by the administration constitutes violation of fundamental right of life and liberty guaranteed under Article 9 of the Constitution. Moreover, insufficient arrangements and medical facilities in the hospital of the provincial headquarters resulted in further loss of life. The note said that the seriously injured were compelled to be shifted from the Civil Hospital to the CMH and other hospitals outside the province. The post-disaster scenario is not encouraging either.
It appears that the incident has been forgotten and no headway has been made in either tracing the culprits or to mobilze state resources to prevent such occurrences in future. There is no evidence of any cognizance taken by the provincial government in this regard.
The chief justice also took notice regarding the killing of Barrister Fahad Malik and called a report from Islamabad police within one week.
The lawyer was killed in the shootout in the federal capital on August 15.