Burney lauds system for dispensation of Justice to Chinese people |
Associated Press of Pakistan (08 July 2008) BEIJING, July 8 (APP): Lauding the system for provision of justice to Chinese people, Pakistan’s renowned human rights activist Ansar Burney said that his visit here at the invitation of Chinese Government will open a new chapter and prove a milestone in the close-fraternal relations between Pakistan and China. The significant week long vist, which was the first of its kind, was also seen as a new opening of Pakistani-Chinese relations and cooperation in the field of human rights’, Burney told APP before leaving for home. He pointed out that visit also demonstrated the importance the Chinese government placed on its relations with Pakistan by inviting a Pakistani activist to assess the Human Rights situation in China. This was the first time that a foreign human rights activist was invited to China on an official visit and to tour the country’s prisons, courts, orphanages, old peoples homes and hospitals, besides holding meetings with senior government officials and leaders of minorities. The elected member of the United Nations Human Rights Council Advisory Committee at Geneva Ansar Burney, was invited by China to assess the current state of human rights in the country and the importance the Chinese government was placing on improving human rights for its citizens. During his visit to several cities in China including Beijing, Kunming and Dali, Ansar Burney also met with a number of senior officials of the Chinese Judicial System including the Vice-President of the Beijing High People’s Court Mr. Wang ZhenQing and Senior Justice Dang Jianjun of the National Supreme Court of the P At these meetings Ansar Burney was briefed about the justice system of China and steps being made to provide justice to the common man. He also met with Chinese Minister Quan Xiaoqian and the Vice-Chairman of the Yunnan Provincial People’s Congress Jiangba Jicai and other senior officials who informed Burney on the measures being made by the Chinese Government to improve human rights in the country for its citizens, particularly minorities. It was also being seen as the start of cooperation between a Pakistani NGO, the Ansar Burney Trust, and organisations in China such as the China Society for Human Rights Studies to work together for the betterment of human rights in the region. The Ansar Burney Trust, whose delegation headed by Advocate Ansar Burney, including Mrs. Shaheen Burney and Syed Fahad Burney, Vice Chairman of the Trust visited China, who left for Pakistan will soon release a report of its findings. Press Back on your browser to Return
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