By Asghar Azad KARACHI: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Saturday said that the judiciary was struggling to buttress democratic and parliamentary norms and always worked within its limits. Addressing the oath taking ceremony of the entrants of the Karachi Bar Association (KBA), he said that the judiciary had closed the door on martial law by voiding November 3, 2007 order. “In any democratic setup the judiciary has to act as an independent institution exercising jurisdictions within its constitutional domain,” he said, adding that the legislature and executive are also independent and they are also bound to exercise their authorities. “Judiciary is the custodian of constitution and has to check constitutional deviation and arbitrary uses of power by other institutions,” he said. “In the present democratic setup, judiciary is trying to buttress democratic and parliamentary norms and it has never tried to assume the role of the exe