The Parliamentary Committee on Appointment of Judges on Monday rejected nominations of two additional Sindh High Court (SHC) judges, recommended by the Judicial Commission for regularisation. A meeting of the committee presided over by its chairman Aitzaz Ahsan was held in the Parliament House. Ahsan said both judges, Justice Nadeem Akhtar and Justice Shafi Siddiqi, were not paying taxes. Talking to media after the meeting, Aitzaz Ahsan said the committee has reservations over the names of two additional Judges of Sindh High Court (SHC) for regularisation, forwarded by the Judicial Commission because they are not paying their income taxes. He said a lot of stress was being laid on payment of tax returns for parliamentarians but this aspect was ignored by the commission while recommending names for judiciary. Aitzaz went on to say he knows the Judicial Commission’s proposed judges would be regularised despite the parliamentary committee’s disapproval. He hoped that the prime minister would take notice of the parliamentary commission’s recommendation by disapproving their regularisation. The committee had earlier approved the regularisation of Justice Nisar Sheikh, one of the three nominations by the Judicial Commission.
