An Azadi appeal to end inequality and uplift the ordinary citizens
Digital Reluctance
August 8, 2025Sewage Sans Frontières
August 17, 202514 August, 2025
Mr. Justice Yahya Afridi
Honorable Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Pakistan.
An ‘Azadi’ Appeal to end Inequality and uplift the ordinary citizens of Pakistan.
Dear Mr. Chief Justice,
Assalam-o-alaikum
As a citizen for peace, progress and wellbeing of Pakistan and its people – especially the disadvantaged, exploited and underpaid, may I be allowed to bring the following for your kind consideration.
Your Honour, you must be well aware that Pakistan is sinking under a foreign debt of $130 billion while its 70 million workers stand excluded from EOBI and condemned to zero retirement income. Under these circumstances, the government’s recent report about the Honorable Chief Justice’s pension of Rs2.39 million per month could only be received with deep pain and dismay amongst all those who dream of a prosperous, just and equitable Pakistan. The contrast could be neither more extreme nor more cruel.
Your Honour, may I also request you to kindly appreciate that millions of poor are deprived of even their legal minimum wage. To quote just one example, in Karachi alone, 12,000 sanitation workers receive less than half of their entitled monthly minimum wage.
May I request you to kindly consider the 2024 SC judgement, that held “pension benefits are a vested right and not charity, alms or donation”. Should you also not reconsider Article 38 of the Constitution, that asks for providing compulsory social insurance and reducing disparity in the income and earnings of all citizens.
Your Honor, may I appeal to the collective conscience of the Honorable Judges, to establish a new tradition of ethical standards, equality and justice by voluntarily demanding that the salary and pension of the Chief Justice and that of an ordinary worker (as notified by minimum wage notification every year) must never exceed a ratio of 1:10.