ISLAMABAD – A high level meeting held here under the chairmanship of Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Asif Saeed Khan Khosa on Monday to discuss the security arrangements regarding the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Law Conference.
The meeting was attended by judges of apex court, including Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed, Justice Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan, Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel, and Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmad to discuss security arrangements regarding the SAARCLAW Conference scheduled to be held in Islamabad in September.
DG ISI Gen Faiz Hameed, DG Intelligence Bureau, Inspector General Police Islamabad and office bearers of SAARCLAW also attended the meeting.
Issues like issuance of visas to delegates, security of the delegates, travel arrangements, hotel accommodations and related matters were comprehensively discussed during the huddle.
Chief justices, judges and lawyers of SAARC member countries will be attending the conference as Pakistan will be hosting 12th Saarc Chief Justices Conference and the 15th SAARCLAW Conference on September 14 and 15.
South Asian Association for Regional Co – operation in Law, SAARCLAW, is an association of the legal communities of the SAARC countries comprising judges, lawyers, academicians, law teachers, public officers and a host of other law-related persons, duly registered with the SAARC Secretariat at Kathmandu and awarded the status of a Regional Apex Body of SAARC . It owes its origin to the desire of the members of the legal community to establish an association within the SAARC region to disseminate information and to promote an understanding of the concerns and developments of the region.
SAARCLAW was established in Colombo on 24th October 1991, when the then President of Sri Lanka, His Excellency Mr. Ranasinghe Premadasa inaugurated the Association in the presence of a large gathering including 175 members of the legal community like judges, legal practitioners and academics of the SAARC.
In the ensuing twenty six years, affiliate Country Chapters have been established in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and activities of the Organisation have also taken place in the Republic of Maldives. A permanent Regional Secretariat as has been established in Kathmandu, Nepal on January, 2016.
