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President William Ruto: The Judiciary must confront corruption within its own ranks. I am aware of the vigorous and often unsettling conversation around terms like ‘jury pesa.’ If the institution mandated to dispense justice is perceived as corrupt, it not only erodes confidence but also undermines the very constitution...

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When even a Supreme Court judge admits his head hangs in shame, that judicial independence is over, and that the state itself is complicit in enforced disappearances—where should families go? It is truly a moment for national level introspection when courts express the same sense of helplessness as victim families. There are courts across the country where cases of enforced disappearances are pending even today. Thousands of families from Balochistan, Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh are still awaiting justice. Hundreds of families await compliance with production orders issued by both the courts and the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances. Often, it appears even issuance of such production orders is futile since their compliance is, more often than not, not ensured. This is the same system that then brands BYC activists as ‘terrorists’ for asking them to uphold the constitution they swore an oath to protect. This contradiction lays bare what we already know: enforced disappearances, fake encounters, extrajudicial killings—the state is behind them all. And the violence is so vast that even if an arm of the state (i.e. the judiciary or the Parliament) wanted to recover the disappeared, it would not know which dungeon holds whom, or which mutilated body lies in which grave. That is why Baloch mothers sit in Islamabad: not only for their sons, but for every face turned into a poster, every grave left without a name. The judiciary must play its part and ensure the most vulnerable are given protection of law, that their fundamental rights are protected not just on paper but in practice. Today, one independent minded judge apologised for failing families of the disappeared and stated that his head hangs in shame seeing the agony of Baloch women on the streets. Is the rest of the judiciary asleep? Or are the collaborators of this practice in the judiciary going to continue playing their part in attempting to erase the forcibly disappeared? If the judiciary is forced to hang its head in shame, history will not forgive this shame. It will indict its silence in the erasure of an entire people.

Sammi Deen Baloch

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