Islamabad: The Supreme Court is working to integrate its case scheduling system with artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure that cases are fixed automatically in accordance with the approved case allocation policy, eliminating human intervention in the process.
Briefing the media on the Supreme Court’s services, digital reforms and complaint redressal mechanism, Supreme Court Registrar Sohail Laghari and Secretary to the Chief Justice Mushtaq Ahmed said the initiative was aimed at making the case scheduling process more transparent, efficient and policy-driven.
Mushtaq Ahmed said the Supreme Court was currently providing 35 services, most of which had already been made available online. Work was also underway to digitize another 12 services to further facilitate litigants.
He said the Supreme Court’s complaint cell had so far received 50,830 complaints, of which only two were directly related to Supreme Court officials. He added that the Court now acted only on relevant complaints, noting that disciplinary action had been taken against a Supreme Court official following a corruption complaint.
He said overseas Pakistanis had responded positively to the Supreme Court’s complaint cell. The Overseas Complaint Cell had received 1,063 complaints, including 22 related to the Supreme Court, of which 14 had already been resolved.
Registrar Sohail Laghari said that following the recent judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court regarding National Accountability Bureau (NAB) matters, the Supreme Court had initiated the categorization of pending cases.
He said around 300 NAB-related cases were currently pending before the Supreme Court and were being processed further in light of the constitutional court’s judgment.