Asif Saeed Khan Khosa: Pakistan gets a chief justice with literary taste
(WorldNews Pakistan)

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan´s new Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa is known to be a `fast-track` judge, one who believes in the quick disposal of cases unless there is some strong legal reason to adjourn hearing for another date. In legal circles, the popular joke is: `In Justice Khosa´s court, a case can be adjourned for two reasons: either the counsel pleading it passes away or the judge hearing it breathes his last.` His determination to end frivolous petitions and dispose of the backlog of pending cases - some 1.9 million cases are pending before courts of the country - was reflected in his address to the Full Court Reference given in honour of the former Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on the...