Judiciary should have been reinstated much earlier: Gilani

ISLAMABAD: In an interview with the Financial Times, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said his biggest mistake was not reinstating the judges at the beginning of his term in office.

“I should have restored the judiciary in the beginning,” he said.

“That is my biggest mistake. Then we would not have wasted our energies on each other. It would have been better that we would have concentrated on the people of Pakistan,” he said.

However, the successes are that “we have very ably completed two years with consensus in the parliament. We did a lot of legislation. The biggest success is that we have gathered the whole nation together on one platform — for the fight against terrorism — and that is the biggest victory ever.”

Another important victory is accommodating and rehabilitating the 2.5 million internally displaced persons in the shortest possible period of three months, he said, adding that “it is an unprecedented success in the history of the world”.

Furthermore, the constitutional amendments once inculcated will be a step forward for stabilising democracy in Pakistan, he told the Financial Times.

Source: http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/04-judiciary-gilani-qs-02