ISLAMABAD    -    Although the Supreme Court of Pakistan de­cided more cases as compared to the previ­ous year yet the pendency of cases in the top court remains above 50,000. According to the official statistics, a total of 24,303 cas­es were decided during the period from 2nd Feb, 2022 to 25th Feb, 2023 against the to­tal institution of 22,018 new cases during the same period. The pendency/backlog of cases in the Supreme Court of Pakistan has thereby been reduced by 2,285 cases from 54,735 to 52,450. The number of cases decided in the annual period ending February 2023 was the highest since 2018 when the total disposal was 16,961 cases. The positive result was a manifestation of the extraordinary hard work of the Judges of the Supreme Court, the in­troduction of a case management system and the constitution of benches according to the needs of the caseload.