Lawyers to challenge ‘unilateral selection’ of SC judges, says Hamid Khan

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Pakistan Tehreek -e -Insaf (PTI) Senator and senior lawyer Hameed Khan has announced that the legal community will challenge Pakistan’s Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) the nomination of six judges in the Supreme Court, and that commitment. Expressing that they will continue against the ‘protest movement’. Appointments

“This appointment is not justified because two senior judges and the opposition’s legislature went out of the meeting … [newly-nominated SC judges] The senior lawyer spoke on the Geo News Program ‘Today Shah Zeb Nakhda’s Seth’, “have to go.

Following his remarks, the Judicial Commission presented six High Court judges nominated for the Supreme Court for height. The Chief Justice of all the High Courts, except the Lahore High Court (LHC), was among the six judges.

They included Justice Muhammad Hashim Khan Kakar, Justice Muhammad Shafi Siddiqui, Justice Salahuddin Panwar, Justice Ashtiaq Ibrahim, Justice Shakeel Ahmed and Justice Aamir Farooq.

The Commission also nominated Justice Miangol Hassan Aurangzeb of IHC as an acting judge of the Supreme Court through the majority of its total membership.

The JCP meeting came between the Islamabad High Court (IHC) transferring the recent judges, between four high court judges and opposition to the former ruling party.

Speaking during today’s program, Hamid said that there was no consensus throughout the process of appointments, and called it a “unilateral choice”.

“Immediately, it may not be possible, but our struggle will be long. We will stand against today’s appointment because there was only one empty space … how can you fill seven or eight. [vacancies]”He said.

Responding to a question, he stated that the next step of lawyers against the appointments of SC judges would have been taken.

Responding to another question, the PTI Senator said that the matter should be heard not by a constitutional bench but by a complete court as his 26th constitutional amendment is like.

“The matter is related to the appointment of SC judges … it is not linked to the establishment of a constitutional court.”

In addition, he said, those who misuse their powers and deny the rule of law do not last long. “Our struggle may be the last six months or a year, the situation in the Supreme Court and other high courts is not viable.”

When asked if the entire court would also consist of newly appointed judges, Hamid replied that he could not be part of the bench as his “appointment would be controversial”.

He said, “They cannot be a judge in their cause. Similarly, the matter cannot be heard through a constitutional bench.

The story of the judges’ transfer

Earlier this month, the Judicial Commission sought nomination from all the high courts, in which a list of five senior judges of each of them was requested.

Islamabad High Court (IHC) initially sent the names of three judges – Chief Justice Aamir Farooq, Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani and Justice Miangol Hassan Aurangzeb – because the other two judges, Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangri and Justice Babar Sattar less. Didn’t reduce Five years of service.

However, the Lahore High Court’s Justice Sarfraz Dougar, along with two judges of the SHC and BHC, were recently shifted to the IHC. After his transfer, the IHC administration reviewed his seniority list and nominated him as a senior poise judge. Therefore, his name was sent to the JCP.

Following the story of the transfer, five IHC judges raised the issue of judges’ sanity and sent represented the IHC Chief Justice against the new seniority list and sent a copy of it to CJP Afridi.

The judges argued that any transfer judge should take a fresh oath under Article 194 of the Constitution, which would place them under the IHC seniority list. This will make him disqualified for the post of IHC Chief Justice immediately.