Islamabad:
The best head of state law declared Thursday to the Supreme Court that the Pakistan Judicial Commission (JCP) would not be likely to convene a meeting in the near future to appoint a permanent chief judge at the High Court of Islamabad (CIH).
A constitutional bench of five members (CB) of the Supreme Court heard a series of petitions filed against the transfer of three judges of three different provincial high lessons to the IHC and the subsequent update of the list of anerties of the Court judge.
The ministry of Law on February 1 published a notification for the transfer of judge Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar, judge Khadim Hussain Soomro and judge Muhammad Asif – respectively from the High Court of Lahore, the High Court of Sindh and the High Court of Balochistan – at the IHC.
After this transfer, the IHC has published a new seniority list, classifying Judge Dogar as a senior judge. Five IHC judges – Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, Judge Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, judge Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan, judge Babar Sattar and judge Saman Rafat Imtiaz – The Butter filed representations against Judge Dogar.
However, the IHC chief judge, Aamer Farooq, rejected these representations. After the elevation of Judge Farooq at the Supreme Court, judge Dogar was also raised as an acting chief of the IHC.
The judges of the IHC, the founder of the PTI, Imran Khan, and four associations of different bars were among the seven petitioners who challenged the ordinance of judge Aamer Farooq at the Supreme Court.
However, when writing the case, the Islamabad High Court Bar Association (IHCBA) told the bench Muhammad Ali Mazhar and including judge Naeem Akhtar Afghan, judge Shahid Bilal Hassan, Judge Salahuddin Panhwar and Judge Shakeel Ahmad that he withdrew his wounds.
During the hearing, the Pakistan Attorney General (AGP) Mansoor Awan told the bench that the judges transferred to the IHC did not want to initiate advice to represent and accept to accept what the CB did after hearing the petitions.
During the last hearing, the lawyer for one of the petitioners, provided Malik, said that an opinion had been issued for a JCP meeting to be held on April 18 to appoint a permanent chief judge at the IHC.
The CB noted that, given the meeting, the court registered the case Thursday, April 17. However, the AGP informed the court that the JCP would meet to appoint two other judges of the court CB.
“When we asked him if a date for the JCP meeting had been set for the appointment and / or the confirmation of the chief of the IHC, he categorically declared that no meeting of this type was provided.
“”[He said] The opinion of the next JCP meeting published for May 2, 2025 is only for the appointment / confirmation of the main judges of the high lessons of Peshawar and Balutchistan. “”
The AGP also concluded that the entire file relating to the transfer of judges to the IHC will be subject to this court through a concise declaration.
This declaration will include the summary lodged by the Department of Law to the Prime Minister of Councils to the President of Pakistan for new measures in terms of article 200 of the ISSAns of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973. The CB will resume the case on April 22.
