Parliamentary Committee on judges appointment has received Judicial
Commission’s recommendations regarding elevation of four judges’ to
Supreme Court and three for Islamabad High Court on Friday.
The Chairman Parliamentary Committee (PC) Senator Nayyer Hussain
Bukhari would convene meeting of committee during commencing week.
The Judicial Commission meeting under the Chairmanship of Chief
Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry recommended names of
current CJ Lahore High Court Justice Chaudhry Ijaz and current CJ
Peshawar High Court Justice Ijaz Afzal have been approved for the
Supreme Court.
The names of Justice Gulzar Ahmed from the Sindh High Court and
Justice (retd) Athar Syed have also been approved for the Supreme
Court.
Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed’s name has been approved for the position
of Chief Justice Lahore High Court while the name of Justice Dost
Muhammad has been approved for Chief Justice Peshawar High Court.
The three names, Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui, Azam Afridi and M Qureshi
have been recommended to appoint as judges’ of Islamabad High Court.
These names were forwarded to the parliamentary committee for
approval sources in senate secretariat told SANA that the
recommendations have been received to the chairman of PC and these
recommendations were sent by the registrar of Apex court.
It is worth mentioning here that there were 13 judges’ in Supreme
Court after elevation of these judges to apex court the number of judges
would be completed. SANA
