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Pakistan’s Judiciary Criticized for Corruption and Lack of Independence

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Islamabad, July 12 (IANS) Pakistan’s judiciary has been deliberately bent into a weapon, as an extension of the security state it was meant to restrain, an article said citing the latest findings from an international human rights NGO.With around 2.4 million cases pending nationwide, Pakistan ranks 101st of the 143 nations on criminal justice and 129th on civil justice in the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index.”Backlog of this magnitude is not merely an inefficiency; it is a resource that…