The Supreme Court will today (Friday) issue its judgement on the reference filed by President Asif Ali Zardari seeking court’s advice on resolving a controversy over the appointment of the Islamabad High Court judges and a petition filed by Advocate Nadeem Ahmad.
A five-member special bench of the SC, headed by Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, had concluded proceedings in the case on December 14 and had reserved its verdict.
The presidential reference, which included 13 questions for the court, was filed in the Islamabad High Court after the president had withheld notifications on the appointments of IHC judges, as recommended by a judicial commission meeting, on the grounds that Justice Anwar Khan Kasi was not as senior as the justice he was replacing on the judicial commission.