Each district to have children, gender based violence courts: CJP.

ISLAMABAD -- Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Asif Saeed Khan Khosa on Wednesday said that children and gender based violence courts would be established in each district of the country.

He expressed these views while addressing a session on orientation on expeditious justice initiative for judges of additional Model Criminal Trial Courts here at Federal Judicial Academy.

The Chief Justice said that in every district of the country there will have gender based courts and the atmosphere of these courts will be different from other courts.

He said there will be at least one such court in each district to facilitate women, where they can go and tell their problems.

He said there would be around 1016 gender based violence courts across Pakistan.

Speaking about the children courts, Chif Justice Khosa said that they will not look like courts but homes, to make children feel comfortable so they can share their problems.

Discussing the performance of the model courts, the chief justice said 5800 trials were decided through model courts in forty-eight working days.

He said basic objective behind establishing Model Courts is to provide inexpensive and expeditious justice to the masses.

He announced to add one more judge to every district and within a few months there will model courts in the entire country.

There will be no justice unless there will be a truthful evidence, he added.

He said any witness, who makes a false testimony will be rejected.

He said the idea of Model Courts was first started in four districts, which was further expanded to seven districts. He said six districts have zero pendency of murder and narcotics cases, while ten districts will be added next month. He said we will...