Justice Abbasi to inaugurate Judges training tomorrow
By Adnan Rafique

ISLAMABAD—Senior Judge Supreme Court of Pakistan Mr. Justice Muhammad Nawaz Abbasi will inaugurate the four-week pre-service training course for the newly appointed Civil Judges-cum- Judicial Magistrates from NWFP and Balochistan here at the Federal Judicial Academy, Khayaban-e-Jauhar, H-8/4, Islamabad on Monday at 3. 00 PM (sharp).
Mr. Moazzam Hayat Director General of the Academy will present a welcome speech and an overview of the course. Thirty -six Civil Judges -cum-Judicial Magistrates are participating in this thirty -fifth training course. Out of them twenty -seven trainee judges are from the NWFP and nine from Balochistan. Among the trainee judges five are female judges from the NWFP, said Hashim Abro spokesman of the FJA.
The Academy has arranged this training course for the judges of both the provinces simultaneously as per directive of the Honourable Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr. Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar who is also chairman Board of Governors of the Federal Judicial Academy, as to promote national integration, deep professional understanding and provide them a unique platform where they can share their expertise, expertise and intellect for professional excellence, Abro maintained.
A galaxy of serving and retired judges both of the superior courts, those of the district judiciary, renowned jurists, legal experts, constitutionalists, including Federal Law Minister Syed Afzal Haider, senior police officers, revenue officers, DNA and Intellectual Property Law experts will lecture them during their trainee at the FJA, Abro concluded.
Meanwhile, The backlog of cases in Supreme Court on March 1 is 15186. According to a press release issued by the Supreme Court here on Saturday, the backlog in the apex Court on February 1, 2008 was 15245 cases. As 612 new cases were instituted during the month of February, the progressive total of pending cases as on February 29, came to 15857. Out of these, 671 cases were disposed of in the month of February and the backlog on March 1st 2008 remained 15186.