Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb was sworn in as a permanent judge of the Supreme Court. The oath was administered by the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Yahya Afridi, and the ceremony took place at the Supreme Court.
Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, already working as an acting SC judge, was proposed to be appointed as a permanent SC judge by the Judicial Commission on December 2.
Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Sarfraz Dogar, Justices Mohsin Akhtar Kiyani, Babar Sattar, Tariq Jahangiri, Sardar Ejaz Ishaq and Justice Saman Rafat Imtiaz also attended the ceremony.
Justice KK Agha of the Federal Constitutional Court, Chief Justice Iqbal Hamid-ur-Rahman of the Federal Shariah Court and Advocate Ahsan Bhoon, member of the Judicial Commission, were also present.
The event was attended by Supreme Court officers, staff, lawyers and other distinguished guests.
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Appointment
Earlier in the meeting, only one JCP member, Justice Munib Akhtar, had voted in favor of Kayani’s elevation to the SC. No other judicial member of the commission, CJP Yahya Afridi, Federal Constitutional Court Chief Justice Amin-ud-Din Khan and Justice Hasan Azhar Rizvi supported the proposal.
There is no justification for not elevating Justice Kayani to the highest court.
Meanwhile, it has been proposed that Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, who is already working as an acting SC judge, be appointed as a permanent SC judge.
Previously, CJP Afridi was interested in appointing Aurangzeb as the IHC chief justice, but the majority of JCP members, especially those belonging to the executive, did not agree with this idea. Instead, they voted for the appointment of Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar as the chief justice of the IHC.
