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[Muhammad Ramzan S/G, Finance Division] Dated : 22.04.2011 There is a Supreme Court in Pakistan and a High Court in each province, and other courts exercising civil and criminal ., jurisdiction . The Supreme Court and High ^-s' -Courts have been established under the Constitution and other Courts have been established by or under the Acts of ., ' Parliament or Acts of Provincial ' ---" Assemblies . The Constitution also provides for the office of Ombudsman . Judiciary Supreme Court The Supreme Court is at the apex of the judicial systems of Pakistan . It consists of a Chief Justice known as Chief Justice of Pakistan 1 L..o y and such number of other judges as may be determined by the Act of Parliament. ' At present, besides the Chief Justice, there are thirteen other Judges in the a --• Supreme Court Appointment of Su reme . p Court Judges The Chief Justice of Pakistan is appointed by the President. Other Judges are also appointed by the President after consultation with the Chief Justice. A person is eligible to be appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court if he is a citizen of Pakistan and has been a Judge of a High Court for five years or an advocate of a High Court for 47 fifteen years . The Chief Justice and Judges of the Supreme Court hold office until the age of sixty-five. Jurisdiction. The Supreme Court has original, appellate and advisory jurisdiction . Original Jurisdiction . The Supreme Court, .. to the exclusion of every other Court in Pakistan , has the jurisdiction to pronounce declaratory judgements in any D 4' dispute between the Federal Government or a provincial government or between any two or more provincial governments. Words 257 4, /All[Muhammad Ramzan SIG, Finance Division ] Dated : 22.04.2011 A democratic country means a type of government running in a country which is elected by the people where a president and a prime minister has his own powers and is bound to stick to those powers only which are granted to him by his post While in Autocracy the meaning is totally opposite it is a common misconception that autocracy is more like dictatorship while in my view dictatorship and autocracy are quite different things. In Dictatorship there is a leader who is being dictated by other person mainly the overruling personality or the party, while an autocrat is a type of a leader who posses all the powers to do anything that he wants like a dictator but I would like to repeat my words "He has all the powers to do anything that HE wants" which means he is ruling the country the way he wishes. Pakistan now is in such a state where it is neither a democratic nor an autocratic. The American dictation is still being copied down by the men in power; the powers are being kept limited due to the immense intervention of media and the judiciary in the state affairs, while the decision taken by the Officials are declared as unjust and a hurdle is some how managed to be created to terminate the order before it reaches the destination. In a country where none of the many types of the government is given a chance to grow how can one think of a consolidated status as a federation? Democracy has its own fruit. A place where the representatives of the people will talk about their problems and would be sincere enough to solve the problems then democracy is the best but if you go for the other side of the page you find those Representatives caught guilty of many crimes themselves like one of the major issue faced in the previous days was of the fake degree cases against many of the Member's of Parliament. Words 334 /==ML LPL V 4 i^^ 1 ^3J 141 Lt &01°