The Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP), under the chairmanship of chief Yahya Afridi, approved on Tuesday the appointments of permanent chief judges for four highly high lessons, including Peshawar, Baloutchistan, Sindh and Islamabad.
According to sources, judge SM Attic Shah was appointed permanent judge of the High Court of Peshawar, said News.
His name was chosen from three candidates, including judge Ijaz Anwar and judge Arshad Ali.
For the high court of Balutchistan, judge Rozi Khan was confirmed as the new chief judge.
He was selected on the basis of his first seniority classification, before the other two nominees, namely judge Muhammad Kamran Khan and judge Iqbal Ahmed Kasi.
Meanwhile, judge Muhammad Junaid Ghaffar was appointed permanent chief of the High Court of the Sindh. His appointment would have been unanimous because he is currently ascending the highest in the seniority list of the court.
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The Commission also deliberated on the first position of the High Court of Islamabad, examining the names of judge Sarfraz Dogar, judge Mohsin Akhtar Kayani and judge Miangul Hassan aurangzeb.
Judge Sardar Sarfraz Dogar was confirmed as the new chief judge, obtaining a majority vote with nine JCP members in favor. He also directs the seniority list of the court.
Plaid before SC
Meanwhile, Senator Ali Zafar, a member of the JCP affiliated with Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf (PTI), told the media outside the Supreme Court that his position remains firm-only the most high-end judge should be appointed chief judge.
He noted that an intra-short call concerning the seniority of the judges of the IHC is still pending and said that the case should not have been discussed as long as the appeal is not decided.
“If our point of view is not accepted, we will vote accordingly,” he said, without disclosing how he had voted.
Earlier, five IHC judges had challenged the ordinance of the Court of Apex approving the transfer of three judges to the IHC.
They also asked the APEX Court to retain the three transferred judges – including the acting chief judge Sarfraz Dogar – to exercise legal or administrative functions as Judges of the IHC.
The judges, in particular the judge Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, the judge Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, the judge Babar Sattar, the judge Sardar Ijaz Ishaq Khan and the judge Saman Rafat Imtiaz, filed an intra-short appeal against the ordinance through the councils Muneer Muneer a Malik and Barrister Salahuddin Ahmeddin Ahmeddin in the Apex court.
