Islamabad:
Islamabad High Court (IHC) Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani has noticed that all state institutions, including executive, parliament and judiciary, have collapsed.
“The judiciary is one of the columns of the state. This pillar is now found in a limbo,” IHC’s senior judge said Tuesday.
The PML-N LED Coalition Government in October last year bulldozed the 26th constitutional amendment through parliament, a change that introduced sweeping change in judiciary.
The change changed the procedure for appointing Chief Justice of Pakistan, while also changing the composition of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP), giving the executive power in the selection and height of the judges to the overall courts.
The change also resulted in the formation of constitutional benches in superior courts along with an increase in the number of judges in the supreme court. Many of these measures were seen by critics as an attempt to control and control the judiciary by beating judges against each other.
The IHC judge who heard a petition filed by some candidates sought directions for the Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) not to complete new Central Superior Services (CSS) exams before announcing the results of the previous hope.
“However, we are not despairing. It is the youth that will do something for this country,” he added,
FPSC President LT General (RETD) AKHTAR NAWAZ SATTI appeared in court and declared that he had recently taken the responsibility – on October 9, 2024. He requested the court to ask the candidates to refer back to FPSC.
“We rejected the requester’s request [to postpone exams] Because they still want chances [to reappear in the exam] Even after the 2025 exams, ”he said.
The court noted that the case was referred to the fact that FPSC was investigated from its perspective. The judge stated that there are 3,761 candidates who appeared in the 2024 exams and now sit until the 2025 exams.
“In total, 88 exam halls are booked across the country and all relevant papers are already sent [for the 2025 exams]”Said FPSC manager.
Additional Law Attorney Munawar Iqbal Duggal stated that postponing these exams would create privacy issues. He said the exams are scheduled to begin on February 15 and that FPSC had the legal authority to complete the next exam, even though the previous results were not yet declared.
The court noted that if the results were not released, exams could continue indefinitely in 2026 and 2027. “If the results were even announced a week earlier, these petitioners would not be before the court today. If FPSC had stated that they announced the results Today, the petition would have been disposed of, ”he added.
In response, the FPSC chairman said if he could speed up the process, he would, but it wasn’t possible. The Commission had decided in the greater public interest in completing the exam on time. He assured the court that the results of the 2024 CSS exams would be announced in the last week of April.
After hearing the arguments reserved for the Court of Justice and later rejected the petition.
