The Legal Commission for Pakistan (JCP), under the Presidency of Chief Justice Yahya Afridi, approved the appointments of the permanent head of four large high courts on Tuesday, including Peshawar, Balochistan, Sindh and Islamabad.
According to sources, Justice SM Attique Shah has been appointed Peshawar High Court’s Permanent Supreme Court, reported Express news.
His name was chosen from three candidates, including Justice Ijaz Anwar and Justice Arshad Ali.
For Balochistan High Court, justice Rozi Khan was confirmed as the new Chief Justice.
He was chosen on the basis of his ranking of top seniority, in front of other two nominees, namely Justice Muhammad Kamran Khan and Justice Iqbal Ahmed Kasi.
Meanwhile, justice Muhammad Junaid Ghaffar has been appointed to Sindh High Court’s Permanent Supreme Court. His appointment was reportedly unanimous as he is currently ranking highest on the court’s seniority list.
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The Commission also considered Islamabad High Court’s top post and reviewed the names of Justice Sarfraz Dogar, Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb.
Justice Sardar Sarfraz Dogar was confirmed as the new Chief Justice and secured a majority vote with nine JCP members in favor. He also leads the court’s seniority list.
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Meanwhile, Senator Ali Zafar, a member of JCP affiliated with Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI), told the media outside the Supreme Court that his attitude remains fast-only the senior-most judge must be appointed Chief Justice.
He noted that an intra-court appeal regarding the seniority of the IHC judges is still pending, and said the case should not have been discussed until the appeal has been decided.
“If our vision is not accepted, we will vote accordingly,” he said without revealing how he had cast his voice.
Previously, five IHC judges had contested the point of point to approve the transfer of three judges to IHC.
They have also requested the Apex Court to limit the three transferred judges – including functioning Chief Justice Sarfraz Dogar – from performing any judicial or administrative functions such as IHC judges.
The judges, including Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, Justice Babar Sattar, Justice Sardar Ijaz Ishaq Khan and Justice Saman Rafat Imtiaz, have submitted an intra-Court appeal against the order through the counseling Muneer a Malik and Barister Salahudin Ahmed Advocate Court.
