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" INAUGURATION OF CONFERENCE ON "LAW AS AN INAUGURATION OF CONFERENCE ON "LAW AS AN INSTRUMENT OF SOCIAL JUSTICE"   Address by   Mr. Justice Dr. Nasim Hasan Shah, Senior Judge, Supreme Court of Pakistan and Chairman, Saarclaw Pakistan   (4th February, 19931   Distinguished Delegates, Mr. Chief Minister, Ladies and Gentlemen‑‑   I feel highly honoured and greatly privileged to welcome all the distinguished delegates who come to participate in this Conference, especially our distinguished delegates from abroad. Their presence in such large numbers is a matter of the greatest statisfaction and a source of great encouragement to us all. On behalf of SAARCLAW PAKISTAN I would like to accord them a very warm welcome to Karachi and wish them "bien venu".   The establishment of SAARCLAW in October, 1991, at Colombo was the result of the interest evinced by the legal community of this region in the Objectives of SAARC and of their deep desire to associate themselves in the efforts being made to secure peace, freedom, social justice and economic prosperity to the people of their region. It was also a manifestation. of their conviction that in order to realize the said objective, it was imperative that the Judges, Lawyers, Jurists and Legal Academics of South Asia should get together, join their heads and devise practical schemes for building meaningful cooperation amongst themselves. In furtherance of this object they got together in October, 1991 at Colombo and agreed to establish a body for carrying out these purposes namely, SAARCLAW. To further consolidate their association they decided upon a second get together and for this purpose Karachi was chosen. However, this was not to be, for reasons known to us…