Role Of Judiciary In The Politics Of Pakistan: A Case Study Of Military Interference

Abstract

Judicial independence is a cornerstone of any democratic society. This study is conducted on primary data comprised of open and closed-ended questions having 360 respondents including 173 students, 82 teachers, 63 lawyers and 42 military. The aim of this analysis is to find the impact of military interference of judicial independence along with considering the other variables such as institutional weakness, political polarization and public engagement. The descriptive statistics is applied for the outlay of data and correlation analysis is done for the examining of significance and interlinked variables. The ordinary least square (OLS) multiple regression is applied in order to get the empirical results. The econometric results shows that military interference and institutional weakness have statistically negative and significant impact on judicial independence. This means that increase in the involvement of military and institutions greatly lowers the judicial independence. The public engagement and political polarization insignificantly affect the judicial independence. Moreover, Chi square test statistics is also applied in order to check the categorical independence between the variables that also exhibit the same results. In all cases, the military interferences play a crucial role in the decisions of judiciary. The findings suggest that the government should strengthen the judiciary autonomy and the military must reshape their territories regarding politics. Finally, media in concern to public engagement should play strategic role in provision of right, authenticate, sound and relevant information to the public for peace and stability in every working institution.