The Judicial Commission of Pakistan on Saturday recommended one-year extension in the services of four additional judges of the Peshawar High Court (PHC). A meeting of the commission was held in this regard at the Supreme Court building. Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry chaired the meeting, which was attended by the members of the commission from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, attorney general and Law Minister Farooq Naek.The commission proposed four new judges for the PHC, namely Asadullah Chamkani, Rohul Amin, Irshad Qaisar and Shahjahan Akhund.It recommended the appointment of Shahjahan Khanzada and Mrs Irshad Qaisar as additional judges of the PHC, and proposed one-year extension in the service of Justice Khalid Mehmood, Justice Nisar Hussain, Justice Waqar Ahmed Seth and Justice Qaisar Rasheed.According to sources, the commission deliberated on nine names and later finalised four names for the PHC.Following the commission’s approval, these names would be sent to a parliamentary committee and later to the president of Pakistan for approval.
