THE Chief Justice has been restored and his honeymooning over. To expect one individual, no matter how determined he is, to take up and organise the whole country is virtually impossible and too much to ask for.

Pakistan like many Third World countries is, and has been, a victim of personal politics, policies and whims. We tend to forget that those nations which have progressed have developed as a result of the systems and institutions that they built and nurtured.

The Chief Justice and judges can take suo motu action only in a fraction of the cases which happen because only a short number of cases are brought to their attention by the media or otherwise.

Thus scores of injustices, crimes, murders, rapes and thefts go on unnoticed and unheard of.

The Chief Justice can, till his tenure which ends in 2012, clear the backlog pending in different courts in Pakistan and ensure that a fresh case is decided within one year of its being filed. I would like to draw the Chief Justice`s attention also to Civil Appeal 872/2000 which was reserved for judgment by his predecessor on May 22, 2008 and fixed for re-hearing nine months later, for reasons best known to him.

AYESHA HANIF MOTIWALA

Karachi