(MENAFN - Tribal News Network) PESHAWAR, 23 December: Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Saqib Nisar has said that he has no desire to become a leader.

This he said while heading a five-judge bench to hear a case pertaining to pollution and clean drinking water in Karachi Registry branch of the Supreme Court.

The chief justice observed that his visit to the Meo Hopsital in Lahore drew lot of criticism from different circles but it was the constitutional obligation of the judiciary to protect basic human rights.

Anybody who wants to criticize me can do so. My visit was aimed at saving human lives. There was no facility of ventilators in the Meo Hospital," Geo TV reporter quoted the top judge as saying.

The country's top judge said that he wanted to categorically state that he had no desire to become a leader. Anybody who wants to criticize me can do so.

'My visit to Meo Hospital was aimed at saving human lives. There was no facility of ventilators in the hospital," Justice Nisar observed.

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