ISLAMABAD: A visiting IMF mission on Friday called on the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and chairman of the Pakistan Bar Council’s (PBC) special committee on judicial reforms, and discussed with them a wide range of topics with primary focus on eradicating corrupt practices to create an inclusive environment for attracting foreign investment to Pakistan.

The meeting between the IMF’s Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment team and SCBA President Mian Muhammad Rauf Atta and PBC committee’s chairman Hassan Raza Pasha lasted over an hour.

According to an SCBA announcement, Mr Atta spoke about shortcomings in the judicial system such as the backlog of cases in lower and district courts, the insufficient number of judges, inefficiencies within departments, and........

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