ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa remarked that the baseless litigation used to waste the courts’ time and lead to an increase in the number of pending cases.

Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa in a case related to property distribution in the Supreme Court remarked that after the death of a 75-year-old man, a land dispute was litigated.

The Chief Justice said “We know how litigation happens, courts waste time due to such baseless and fabricated litigation, the number of pending cases is increasing due to baseless litigation”.

A claim was filed in the Supreme Court in 2006 over a property dispute which was disposed of by the court.

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Earlier, The Supreme Court (SC) suspended the Peshawar High Court judgment on reserved  seats on the petition of the Sunni Ittehad Council(SIC).

A three-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Mansoor Ali Shah heard the petition related to the reserved seats of the Sunni Ittehad Council.

Lawyer Faisal Siddiqui told the court that PTI’s independent winning MNAs joined the Sunni Ittehad Council, upon which Justice Mansoor Ali Shah inquired whether the 7 candidates are still part of the National Assembly in independent status.