Islamabad:
The Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) will meet here on Monday (today) to consider the elevation of eight judges of the Court superior to the Supreme Court despite the calls of some judges and sections of the legal community to defer the meeting.
Only a few days ago, four Supreme Court judges wrote to the president of the Supreme Court Yahya Afridi, who also directs the JCP, requesting a postponement. In addition, a JCP member also wrote a separate letter urging the president of the Supreme Court to delay the new appointments for the Apex court.
The renewed JCP would meet here on Monday (today). It expanded through the 26th constitutional amendment. The JCP 13-Memner is led by the president of the president of Pakistan and includes four judges of the Apex court, as well as the parliamentarians of both the treasure and the opposition and others.
The sources indicate that the meeting is expected to approx ) to the Supreme Court. In addition, two SHC judges and two of the PHC are likely to be high.
In addition to the president of the Supreme Court of SHC, Siddiqui, according to the sources, the JCP would consider four names for an elevation to the Apex court. Similarly, the sources said, the elevation of the president of the PHC Ishtiaq Ibrahim was likely, while JCP would consider four other names for an elevation to the Supreme Court.
The sources also said that the president of the Supreme Court of IHC, Aamer Farooq, and the president of the Supreme Court of BHC, Kakar, would probably rise to the Supreme Court, while two high -ranking judges in the LHC would be considered. The sources said that the president of the LHC, Aalia Neelum, would probably remain in the Superior Court.
On the other hand, the sources said, the JCP had invited names for four appointments as additional judges in the LHC. The names had been invited on February 13 in the context of the February 6 meeting of the JCP, they added.
Meanwhile, the lawyers divided on the issue of the elevation of the judges to the Supreme Court. A section of the lawyers said that the process should differ to the decision on judicial challenges to the 26th constitutional amendment and the recent transfer of three judges to the IHC.
In recent days, four Judges of the Supreme Court and five IHC judges, in addition to the member member of the JCP, Senator Ali Zafar, wrote separate letters to the President of the Supreme Court Aphridi to postpone the JCP meeting until the decisions on the appeals Earrings against the 26th amendment and the new seniority list of the Antiquity List of the Golden List of the new list of yesteryear. IHC judges.
The lawyer committee of all the Pakistan (APLAC), which represented the lawyers, who opposed the 26th amendment, in a statement supported the claim of the four judges after the postponement of the JCP meeting and delayed the appointment of the new judges.
The declaration, signed by several former presidents and officers of the Office of the Bar Association of Pakistan (PBC) and the Association of Lawyers of the Supreme Court (SCBA) and other bars, including Muneer A. Malik, Hamid Khan, Ali Ahmed Kurd, Qazi Anwar, Art Zuberi, promised to defend the independence of the Judiciary.
The Alac announced that the lawyers throughout the country would celebrate a symbolic protest march in the Supreme Court on Monday (today) for demanding the reversal of the 26th amendment and a complete judicial hearing of appeals against it, without the inclusion of new appointed . .
“This protest will serve as a strong and united message of the legal fraternity that any effort to subjugate to the Judiciary or manipulate its composition will not be tolerated, he said.” We reaffirm our unwavering resolution to defend the independence of the Judiciary and the rule of the law. “
However, the current carriers of the PBC office, the SCBA and the provincial bars issued a separate statement in favor of the JCP, rejecting and strongly condemning the call called for the protest destined to sabotage the JCP meeting.
The bodies of the lawyers regretted that some political factions within the legal community were “trying to create chaos and division to achieve their nefarious political objectives” and their questionable political agendas.
“We assure these factions that their useless exercises carried out by the political elements are destined to fail and soon we will become ineffective. Once again, we, the elected representatives, want to make it clear that we support all the actions of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan,” , declared the joint statement.
They described the formation of the JCP the most balanced in recent times, adding that they accepted the 26th constitutional amendment and the events that followed as part of the Constitution. “It is the duty of each citizen respectful of the law to follow this framework,” added the statement.
“We, the elected representatives of the legal community, have always defended the rule of law, the independence of the Judiciary, the supremacy of the institutions and the defense of the Constitution, said the joint statement.
