ISLAMABAD: Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court on Thursday observedthat neither the Constitution nor any law entitled judges or senior membersof the armed forces to receive plots or pieces of land.
“It is trite, but needs restating that judges are not empowered to makelaw; they simply interpret it and if a law offends the Constitution theymust strike it down,” observed Justice Isa in his additional note whilesetting aside the Sept 9, 2018 Islamabad High Court judgement which hadscrapped the federal government’s housing scheme in sectors F-14 and F-15in Islamabad.
While scrapping the scheme, the high court had noted that the beneficiariesof these sectors were serving or retired officers and employees of federalministries, divisions, attached departments, judges of the Supreme Court,all high courts, Azad Jammu and Kashmir Supreme Court and the Chief Courtand Supreme Appellate Court of Gilgit-Baltistan, as well as the FederalShariat Court.
