CJP Justice Saqib Nisar to leave for Europe for Diamer Bhasha Dam funds raising
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*LAHORE - * Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar will be travelling to the United Kingdom and European countries to speak to the overseas Pakistanis to generate awareness on the crucial issue of water scarcity and building new dams for which funds could be raised from the expatriates.
The chief justice decided to visit Europe after accepting an invitation from the World Congress of Overseas Pakistanis.
Speaking to the World Congress of Overseas Pakistanis Executive Director Arif Anis after delivering the landmark judgment on Friday through which the Supreme Court permitted Pakistanis residing abroad to cast vote in the upcoming by-polls, Justice Nisar said, “Many congratulations to overseas Pakistanis today.” He added that it would be the first time that expat Pakistanis will be voting in a local election through I-voting mechanism.
The judgment was issued by a three-judge bench headed by the CJP himself which was hearing petitions at the apex court’s Lahore registry. Dr Farhat Siddiqui, along with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and others through solicitor Muhammad Dawood Ghaznavi, sought voting rights for overseas Pakistanis.
The petitioners had asked the top court to order authorities to give them the right to vote so that they could participate in elections and choose their leaders. They had also asked the court to order the ECP to implement its 2014 judgment in which arrangements for overseas Pakistanis had been ordered for their fundamental rights as guaranteed by the Constitution.
