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" 305 HOW RESTORATIVE JUSTICE SYSTEM CAN BE FORMALIZED IN PAKISTAN Dr. Zafar Ahmed Khan Sherwani*   Published in: All Pakistan Legal Decisions Year of Publication: 2011 Suggested Citation: 2011 PLD Journal Section p.75 As we all know that it is the responsibility of every State to provide inexpensive and expeditious justice to its citizens irrespective of their creed and cast. Pakistan in its Article 37(d) of the Constitution ensures inexpensive and expeditious justice to its citizens. However the present state of our justice sector institutions paints a horrible picture. Its (Cit. p.76) citizens have been completely deprived of justice as it is neither inexpensive nor expeditious. On one hand the real perpetrators of crime are seldom arrested and if arrested, some of them are finally acquitted for defective investigation and some on account of losing interest by the victims on account of protracted trials. The worst example in this regard is the case of Mukhtaran Mai. Overcrowded jail population comprises 96% of under trial prisoners. It is the State's duty to improve the justice delivery system and to bring about the necessary changes in the basic structure of these institutions so that confidence of its citizen over them is restored. Pakistan being a member of international community is constitutionally committed to adhere and ratify International covenants, conventions or treaties and to implement their provisions in the letter and spirit. There are a number of International conventions and instruments of United Nations and its bodies relating to child rights under which all the Member States are under obligation to bring legislation in accordance with these provisions. Similarly there are a number of International instruments, such as, Basic Principles on the…