Serving judges, spouses get exemption from body search at airports

[Respect4Respect]

KARACHI - The Ministry of Aviation has exempted the serving judges and their spouses from body search at all airports in Pakistan on the directives of the Supreme Court. An order in this regard has been issued by the Airport Security Force (ASF) director general on the directive of the aviation secretary. “[...] Secretary Aviation has been pleased to exempt spouses of serving judges and Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Pakistan from body search at all airports,” read a notification issued by the Ministry of Aviation on October 12. Earlier, media reports said that Pakistan was in talks with a United Arab Emirates (UAE) company for installing eGates at the Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad airports for self-immigration services similar to developed countries. Airport sources had said the installation of eGates at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport, Lahore’s Allama Iqbal Airport and Islamabad International Airport was under consideration to expedite the immigration service for passengers of developed countries. Like the airports of Birmingham, Edinburgh, Dubai and other developed countries, passengers at the three major airports of Pakistan would be able to avoid the hassle of queues and will be able to easily sail through the automated self-service immigration barriers. According to the immigration sources, only the passengers having an e-passport will be able to use the e-gates facility.

Serving judges, spouses get exemption from body search at airports

KARACHI - The Ministry of Aviation has exempted the serving judges and their spouses from body search at all airports in Pakistan on the

www.nation.com.pk

 

[gangsta_rap]

No matter what happens the poor religious downtrodden in Pakistan are the losers. Westernized elite in the country can do as they please. They can free themselves from the restraints of basic societal norms - they are after all educated and respected members of society. Not like the uncouth rabble - no that heap is lower than dirt.

 

[RescueRanger]

KARACHI - The Ministry of Aviation has exempted the serving judges and their spouses from body search at all airports in Pakistan on the directives of the Supreme Court. An order in this regard has been issued by the Airport Security Force (ASF) director general on the directive of the aviation secretary. “[...] Secretary Aviation has been pleased to exempt spouses of serving judges and Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Pakistan from body search at all airports,” read a notification issued by the Ministry of Aviation on October 12. Earlier, media reports said that Pakistan was in talks with a United Arab Emirates (UAE) company for installing eGates at the Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad airports for self-immigration services similar to developed countries. Airport sources had said the installation of eGates at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport, Lahore’s Allama Iqbal Airport and Islamabad International Airport was under consideration to expedite the immigration service for passengers of developed countries. Like the airports of Birmingham, Edinburgh, Dubai and other developed countries, passengers at the three major airports of Pakistan would be able to avoid the hassle of queues and will be able to easily sail through the automated self-service immigration barriers. According to the immigration sources, only the passengers having an e-passport will be able to use the e-gates facility.

Serving judges, spouses get exemption from body search at airports

KARACHI - The Ministry of Aviation has exempted the serving judges and their spouses from body search at all airports in Pakistan on the

www.nation.com.pk

Whilst a sad reflection on the state of mind of our elite and our society, where it is one law for them and one law for the masses, there has always been a policy in the past that certain officials holding BPS18 and restricted BPS20 (Members of Parliament) were ever exempt from searches at airports.

I remember in 2006 when I was performing security duties during the visit of foreign heads of state to Islamabad. The then aide to PM Shaukat Aziz, a rather sleazy looking young man in a sharp suit got very angry some constables when they searched the vehicle he was in at Islamabad Airport during the visit of the Sri Lankan PM, and he demanded we let him through without the search waving his PM Office ID card in our face, to which he was politely told, sir every VIP vehicle has been searched you are NO exception.

Jinnah lounge was always the exception, any VIP/V-VIP travelling through Jinnah Lounge was automatically NOT searched as they were seen as "vetted" functionaries of the state and afforded a courtsey. Back in 80's/90's/and 00's if you were releated to anyone with some small degree of pull in PIA/FIA/ASF/Local Government you were rushed through check-in and this was labelled "protocol".

I don't know why we can't learn from history, rules should apply to all, regardless of rank and social status.

 

[313Ghazi]

I don't care who gets the excemptions - what bothers me is that excemptions exist. It's a cultural problem, it creates inequality and the fact people think it's "okay" to have inequality at any level is a massive problem.

 

[SiliconByte (silicon0000)]

Another example of Elites Corruption. They can now take all the corruption money out of the country without any disclosure legally.

#Elites ka Pakistan.

 

[RescueRanger]

I don't care who gets the excemptions - what bothers me is that excemptions exist. It's a cultural problem, it creates inequality and the fact people think it's "okay" to have inequality at any level is a massive problem.

Yes sadly you are correct, there should be NO exemptions. But this is a legacy of pre-colonial times, the servant and master mentality is deeply ingrained into the psyche of our elite, who feel they are "above" the "lesser/small folk".

Back in the early 1900's the British Raj in India/Pakistan would send young office bearers from the UK to British India as administrators in remote areas of the country to maintain law, order and safeguard the interests of the Empire. These administrators would later be come to known as "governors" and District Commissioners. One such man a young Albert Hawkin was sent packing with his young wife and daughter to a far flung part of India which we now know as Gujranwala.

As he was a JP (Justice of the Peace) also known as a Magistrate, he was given task of administering the District Courts:

District Court House, Gujranwala circa 1865.

Initially he protested his posting and was aggrieved to leave his comfortable life in London from what he deemed a poor posting in one of the "backwater" parts of the Raj. It wasn't until he arrived that he was given the "protocol" that the position afforded. This included a Bungalow attached to the court house, multiple servants, a personal tonga (Horse Carriage) 4 horses, and many other comforts besides.

He soon became accustom to the life of White Masters in the Indian Raj and used his power and authority for his own benefit. Once there is a story that he held up a train packed with passengers in the din of July heat to Lahore for 4 hours because his wife and daughter needed their rest and breakfast prior to making the long journey on the train much to the detriment of the locals.

After five years his service in India was over and he was recalled to London, reluctantly he returned upon his return he was given a small rather isolated posting in the office of the Tribunals by his superiors, a man who once has hundred of staff under his command and an entire city kowtowing to his authority was now reduced to a mere pencil pusher, when he protested and demanded to know why he was relegated to such a meaningless post despite his hard work for the empire, he was simply told (you have enjoyed India's warm air and her luxuries, they have the tendency to make industrious men indolent, we have no place for indolent men here.).

Of course this is just a legend that was passed down from A.R. Chohan one of Pakistan's oldest and most esteemed civil servants who was part of the civil service during the Raj. Its veracity cannot be confirmed, but I fear there is some measure of truth to this cautionary tale.

I hope you understand.

 

[313Ghazi]

Yes sadly you are correct, there should be NO exemptions. But this is a legacy of pre-colonial times, the servant and master mentality is deeply ingrained into the psyche of our elite, who feel they are "above" the "lesser/small folk".

Back in the early 1900's the British Raj in India/Pakistan would send young office bearers from the UK to British India as administrators in remote areas of the country to maintain law, order and safeguard the interests of the Empire. These administrators would later be come to known as "governors" and District Commissioners. One such man a young Albert Hawkin was sent packing with his young wife and daughter to a far flung part of India which we now know as Gujranwala.

As he was a JP (Justice of the Peace) also known as a Magistrate, he was given task of administering the District Courts:
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District Court House, Gujranwala circa 1865.

Initially he protested his posting and was aggrieved to leave his comfortable life in London from what he deemed a poor posting in one of the "backwater" parts of the Raj. It wasn't until he arrived that he was given the "protocol" that the position afforded. This included a Bungalow attached to the court house, multiple servants, a personal tonga (Horse Carriage) 4 horses, and many other comforts besides.

He soon became accustom to the life of White Masters in the Indian Raj and used his power and authority for his own benefit. Once there is a story that he held up a train packed with passengers in the din of July heat to Lahore for 4 hours because his wife and daughter needed their rest and breakfast prior to making the long journey on the train much to the detriment of the locals.

After five years his service in India was over and he was recalled to London, reluctantly he returned upon his return he was given a small rather isolated posting in the office of the Tribunals by his superiors, a man who once has hundred of staff under his command and an entire city kowtowing to his authority was now reduced to a mere pencil pusher, when he protested and demanded to know why he was relegated to such a meaningless post despite his hard work for the empire, he was simply told (you have enjoyed India's warm air and her luxuries, they have the tendency to make industrious men indolent, we have no place for indolent men here.).

Of course this is just a legend that was passed down from A.R. Chohan one of Pakistan's oldest and most esteemed civil servants who was part of the civil service during the Raj. Its veracity cannot be confirmed, but I fear there is some measure of truth to this cautionary tale.

I hope you understand.

I understand only too well. I just don't understand how it will stop.

 

[Respect4Respect]

Whilst a sad reflection on the state of mind of our elite and our society, where it is one law for them and one law for the masses, there has always been a policy in the past that certain officials holding BPS18 and restricted BPS20 (Members of Parliament) were ever exempt from searches at airports.

I remember in 2006 when I was performing security duties during the visit of foreign heads of state to Islamabad. The then aide to PM Shaukat Aziz, a rather sleazy looking young man in a sharp suit got very angry some constables when they searched the vehicle he was in at Islamabad Airport during the visit of the Sri Lankan PM, and he demanded we let him through without the search waving his PM Office ID card in our face, to which he was politely told, sir every VIP vehicle has been searched you are NO exception.

Jinnah lounge was always the exception, any VIP/V-VIP travelling through Jinnah Lounge was automatically NOT searched as they were seen as "vetted" functionaries of the state and afforded a courtsey. Back in 80's/90's/and 00's if you were releated to anyone with some small degree of pull in PIA/FIA/ASF/Local Government you were rushed through check-in and this was labelled "protocol".

I don't know why we can't learn from history, rules should apply to all, regardless of rank and social status.

it would be understandable if politicians (corrupt) were trying to get this exemption but judges? its very sad.

 

[313Ghazi]

SC office explains judges’ wives protocol controversy​

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court office on Monday tried to put to rest a controversy surrounding the protocol accorded to superior court judges and their spouses at country’s airports, saying the registrar’s correspondence to the aviation secretary on Sept 21 had simply meant to remove an anomaly regarding judges’ protocols.


According to the initial registrar letter, spouses of retired judges were exempted from body searches, but the wives of serving judges had to undergo frisking at airports.


The registrar’s dispatch had expressed the hope that the aviation secretary would resolve the anomaly by stating that the airport security cards exempted the chief justice and judges of the Supreme Court, retired chief justices of the Supreme Court and wives of the retired chief justices and judges of the Supreme Court from body search. But surprisingly, the spouses of the serving chief justices and judges of the Supreme Court are not exempted from such frisking, the letter said.


In response the director general, Airport Security Force (ASF), through an Oct 12 letter, informed that the aviation secretary had exempted the spouses of the serving judges and chief justices of the Supreme Court from body search at the airport. But this letter was leaked to the media over the weekend.


On Monday, Shahid Hussain Kamboyo, the public relations officer (PRO) of the Supreme Court, wrote a joint letter to Aviation Secretary Saif Anjum and Director General of ASF, Major General Adnan Asif Jah Shad, regretting that the Oct 12 letter, surprisingly found its way to the media immediately after Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa and his wife, Mrs Sarina Isa, left Pakistan for Turkiye during the Supreme Court’s winter vacations.


Kindly, in the interest of full disclosure, the PRO’s letter said, also disclose the Sept 21 letter of registrar of the Supreme Court to correct the misconceptions.


It said the body search exemption rule was not made by the Supreme Court nor was any exemption sought. The registrar had simply pointed out an anomaly.


“Your letter (aviation secretary), while resolving the anomaly does not offer an explanation and neither ASF nor the government of Pakistan was concerned about the security breach,” the PRO regretted and noted that the real facts that Mrs Sarina Isa, while departing from Pakistan on Dec 16, herself went into the cubicle of ASF and was searched by a lady officer.


The recording by cameras installed at the airport will confirm it . Thus neither any exemption was sought nor given, the letter explained.


The letter regretted it was interesting that the letter, written 66 days ago, had come into the public domain immediately on CJP Isa’s departure from Pakistan. The body search exemption cards for spouses have not been received, it added.


At the airport, CJP Isa was offered but he declined the use of the VIP lounge, it said, adding that the CJP also declined the use of the luxury limousine which drives VIPs right up to the aircraft.

SC office explains judges’ wives protocol controversy

Supreme Court Office addresses controversy over airport protocol for superior court judges and their spouses.

www.dawn.com

 

[SiliconByte (silicon0000)]

it would be understandable if politicians (corrupt) were trying to get this exemption but judges? its very sad.

Judges are also part of Pakistan Elites and are as corrupt (if not more) as politicians of Pakistan.

 

[Respect4Respect]

Judges are also part of Pakistan Elites and are as corrupt (if not more) as politicians of Pakistan.

i would go one step further and claim that judiciary is the most corrupt institution of Pakistan...but i never thought it would to a point where they can shamelessly give exemptions to themselves.