The Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) is scheduled to meet again on February 1 to appoint nine additional judges to the Peshawar High Court (PHC). The meeting will be held at the Supreme Court building in Islamabad under the chairmanship of Chief Justice of Pakistan Yahya Afridi. According to sources, a total of 40 names have been sent to the PCJ for consideration. These include the names of four district and session judges: Kaleem Arshad Khan, Farrukh Jamshed, Inaamullah Khan and Sophia Waqar Khattak. Lawyers whose names will be considered for nomination to the PHC include Abdul Fayyaz, Kaleem Khan, Aamir Javed, Atif Ali Khan, Aurangzeb, Bakht Jamal Khan, Basharat Khan, Bilal Ahmed Durrani, Ghulam Muhammad Sipal, Junaid Anwar, Kausar Ali Shah and Mansur Tariq. The list also includes Muhammad Ali Khan, Muhammad Bashar Naveed, Muhammad Habib Qureshi, Inam Khan, Ikram Khan, Muhammad Javed Khan, Muhammad Rafiq, Muhammad Tariq Afridi, Mukhtar Ahmed Muniri, Nasir Mahmood, Nauman Haq, Qazi Babar Irshad and Qazi Jawad . Ehsanullah. Also included are lawyers Rahila Bibi, Sabtullah Khan, Sadiq Ali, Salahuddin, Sardar Ali Raza, Shabnam Nawaz, Shah Faisal, Shumail Butt, Syed Mudassir Amir, Syed Shakeel Khan Gilani and Syed Sikandar Hayat Shah. A day earlier, on Friday, the PCJ held two separate meetings to consider candidates for additional judge posts in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) and the Balochistan High Court (BHC). In the first meeting, the commission, by majority vote of its total members, nominated Islamabad District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Azam Khan and Supreme Court Advocate Inaam Ameen Minhas as additional judges of the IHC. In the second meeting, the PCJ unanimously nominated Muhammad Asif and Muhammad Ayub Khan, both advocates of the Supreme Court, as additional judges of the BHC. The council nominated Muhammad Najam-ud-Din Mengal for the same position by majority vote. Mengal is also a Supreme Court lawyer.
"At both meetings, the commission unanimously decided that candidates who this time did not obtain the required majority of the total PCJ members to finalize their nominations could be nominated again for future vacancies," said a statement issued by the SC registry office.
