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" PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION: A TOOL TO PROTECT FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS   PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION: A TOOL TO PROTECT FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS   By   Abdul Sattar Asghar, Registrar, Lahore High Court*   *Paper read at National Judicial Conference, Islamabad, 2011.   Black's Law Dictionary defines public interest litigation as a legal action initiated in a Court of Law for the enforcement of public interest or general interest in which the public or class of the community have pecuniary interest or some interest by which their legal rights or liabilities are affected. The concept of public interest litigation provides opportunity to all the citizens to have inviolable access to justice for the protection and enforcement of fundamental human rights to life and liberty.   2. In a leading public interest litigation case titled Muhammad Bin Ismail v. Tan Sri Haji Othman Saat, (1982-2 MLJ 133) Justice Wan Yahya (Malaysia) laid the dictum as under:-   "If they (public authorities) transgress any law or constitutional directive, then any public-spirited citizen, even if he has no greater interest than a person having regard for the due observation of the Law, may move the courts and the courts may grant him the appropriate legal remedy in its discretion"   3. In the constitutionally governed States, judiciary is provided pivotal role of protection and enforcement of the fundamental human, constitutional and statutory rights. To frame a Constitution for the new born State of Pakistan founder of the nation Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah envisaged that if we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous we should wholly and solely concentrate on the well being of the people and especially of the poor. After striving hard…