Islamabad:
Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz Ayeen-E-Pakistan (TTAP) The main vice-president Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar posted a call from the Chamber contesting the objections of the Office of the Supreme Court against petitions against the 26th constitutional amendment.
The 26th constitutional amendment, promulgated on October 21, 2024, reduced the SUO motu jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and transferred the authority to appoint the chief judge of Pakistan (CJP) to a special parliamentary committee. Under the new arrangement, the Committee can choose the CJP from the three highest judges of the Supreme Court, instead of automatically raising the highest.
At present, the Supreme Court manages several petitions requesting the training of a full court to deliberate on the issue, rather than the constitutional bench (CB) established in accordance with the 26th amendment. The CB should continue to hear the original calls on October 7.
In his appeal, Khokhar asked the Supreme Court to declare the decision -making vacuum of the registrar of the registrar on September 19, arguing that the cases linked to the constitutional amendments could only be heard by a full court, not by a constitutional bench.
He noted that the ordinances of judge Mansoor Ali Shah and the judge Munib Akhtar, referring to the case to a full court, were still intact. The appeal also argued that the decision of the registrar’s office to return the petitions had violated the decisions of the Supreme Court and was equivalent to “close the doors of justice”.
