China to Help Pakistan in Resolving Pending Court Cases
Source Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror
Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Yahya Afridi, announced on Tuesday that Pakistan will begin adopting Chinese judicial technology to help address the long-standing backlog of cases in the country’s courts, according to a report by 24NewsHD TV.
Speaking to Supreme Court journalists after returning from official visits to China and Turkey, the Chief Justice shared insights from the tour, which he undertook with a four-member delegation. He described the hospitality they received in China as exceptional and said the visit provided valuable lessons for Pakistan’s judicial reform efforts.
Justice Afridi highlighted a key contrast between the two systems: while Pakistan’s judiciary struggles with thousands of pending cases, the Supreme People’s Court of China, with 367 judges, has no case backlog—a fact that surprised the Chinese judiciary when they learned of Pakistan’s situation.
“When asked how we plan to manage our pending cases, I told them that we came specifically to study their system and learn from their use of technology,” he said.
He stressed that integrating advanced judicial technologies is essential to streamlining Pakistan’s legal processes, but cautioned that such solutions are not instant fixes. “Technology is not a magic pill. Without reliable data, even AI cannot function properly,” he added.
Justice Afridi also noted a surprising observation: the technological infrastructure in Pakistan’s five high courts is currently more advanced than that of the Supreme Court, signaling the need for modernization at the top judicial level.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
