Islamabad:
The main judge of the high court of the High Court of the High Court (IHC) Mohin Akhtar Kayani said that the chief judge of Pakistan, Yahya Afridi, and the chief of the constitutional bench SC (CB), the judge Aminuddin Khan, should come to the IHC and sit with his judges to understand the situation.
“This will solve all the questions, including internal problems in the court,” said judge Kayani on Tuesday when he was addressed to journalists after a hearing of the Supreme Court.
Five IHC judges – Kayani, Babar Sattar, Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan and Saman Rafat Imtiaz – attended both Monday and Tuesday procedure – carried out by a CB of five members – of petitions deposited against an ICC order.
An IHC division bench led by chief judge Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar on September 16 prevented Judge Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri from exercising his functions when she started the procedure on a petition that accusing her of holding a dubious LLB diploma.
On September 19, five IHC judges, including judge Jahangiri, went to the Supreme Court in person to deposit distinct constitutional petitions, making eleven different prayers, including a requesting the cancellation of the CIH order to jump Jahangiri from the judicial work.
The CB canceled the provisional order of the IHC on Tuesday. After obtaining a brief relief from the CB, the five IHC judges answered journalists’ questions.
Judge Kayani told journalists that the IHC judges felt like they were standing in the platform like the accused. When asked if the judges had to form a union, judge Kayani said that it was not a question of creating a union to put pressure on someone.
