Karachi, Feb 20: Chief Justice Visheshwar Nath Khare in Karachi, Pakistan for the 7th SAARC Chief Justices Conference scheduled. The event coincides with the tenth SAARC Law International Conference, SAARC Law secretary general Hemant Batra said in a statement.
Legal luminaries from India, Pakistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka will focus on a ''leap forward to the next generation of laws'' and explore the interface between social and economic changes and law, the announcement said.

The event will help define the basic parameters of the change-- speed, direction and content-- by identifying crucial interfaces of social and economic change and their impact on law and legal issues.
The exercise will cover a range of areas such as international law, banking and recovery laws, media laws, cyber crime, combating organised crime, corporate governance and accountability and World Trade Organisation and regional trade.
The conference will explore challenges before lawmakers, lawyers and society in the wake of new laws enacted or to be enacted. SAARC law is an association of legal communities of member nations comprising judges, lawyers, academicians, law-teachers, government servants and other law related persons registered with the SAARC secretariat at Kathmandu.
It was set up to promote closer cooperation, exchange of ideas, dissemination of information and understanding of the problems of the region between lawyers, judges, jurists and academicians.
It has been the convention since 1995 to also hold conferences of the Chief Justices of the SAARC countries concurrently with the SAARC Law Conference.
Bureau Report