By Uzma Zafar
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi Tuesday asked the Federal Ombudsman to create a special cell to redress the grievances and rectify injustices done to expatriates through the maladministration of government agencies.
The president made these remarks during a briefing on the role of Wafaqi Mohtasib given by Federal Ombudsman Syed Tahir Shahbaz at the Federal Ombudsman Secretariat.
The meeting was attended by Acting Secretary Wafaqi Mohtasib Aftab Akbar Durrani, Consultant (Legal Affairs) President’s Secretariat, Justice (retired) Sayed Zahid Hussain and senior advisors of Wafaqi Mohtasib.
The president also called for revisiting the laws governing the institution of Wafaqi Mohtasib to provide speedy and free-of-cost justice to the people against the maladministration of government organizations.
Addressing the meeting, the president emphasised the need for further enhancing the outreach of Wafaqi Mohtasib to remote areas of the country to provide speedy and free of cost justice to the aggrieved persons at their doorsteps against administrative injustices.
He underlined the need to use the alternative dispute resolution system for the provision of speedy, less expensive and hassle-free justice to the people which could boost the confidence and trust of people upon the judicial system.
