Bar always upheld rule of law, supremacy of Constitution: Azam Nazeer Tarar.

ISLAMABAD -- Federal Minister for Law and Justice Azam Nazeer Tarar on Wednesday said the bar had always played its constructive role in upholding the rule of law and supremacy of the Constitution.

The bar also played its role in promoting democratic values, he said while addressing a ceremony for distribution of plot allotment letters among the members of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) in Federal Government Employees Housing Authority (FGEHA) and SCBA's joint housing project 'Park Road Housing Scheme.'

The minister said relations of bar and bench were also important as they both were pillars of the system which delivered justice to the citizen of Pakistan. If bar raised voice against the courts or judiciary it did it for the betterment of the courts and judiciary and for transparency and supremacy of law.

'I thanked the Prime Minister for resolving the long standing issue of housing society for the legal fraternity with such a tremendous speed for which he is famous,' he said and added that the Prime Minister soon after taking the charge formed a committee headed by Special Assistant to the Prime Minister Ahad Cheema for resolving the issue of lawyers.

He said that allotment letters of Phase one had been prepared and would be handed over to the members...