“Parliament is supreme, but cannot make any constitutional amendment which is against the basic human rights,” said the former CJP while addressing the ‘Meet the Editors’ programme organised by the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) on Sunday. Of the 188,000 petitions in the SC Human Rights Cell, more than 80% were heard. He said, “In view of the number of cases a judge receives, he has only three minutes to hear a case. CPNE Editors Club Chairman Hamid Hussain Abidi announced an honorary membership for the former CJP. Sindh assures CPNE of clearing newspapers’ duesAt the end of the programme, CPNE Vice President Ikram Sehgal thanked the guests.

Source: The Express Tribune February 25, 2019 03:11 UTC