Newly elected Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Muhammad Yasin Azad on Monday demanded that Supreme Court (SC) judges be appointed on merit to remove the reservations of lawyer. Addressing a press conference along with former SCBA President Asma Jahangir, Azad said the method of appointing judges to the SC was acceptable but some junior judges from the Singh High Court had been elevated to the SC which was unfair and a violation of the merit policy.
Azad said each institution must act within its Constitutional limits or the country would suffer. Asma said lawyers have reservations over the elevation of junior judges of the SHC to the SC.
To a question, she said in the bar election neither the government nor the judiciary can succeed and the success of Azad in the election was the success of the lawyers and no-one else.
