Tag: Judges

Supreme Court Bar Association President Asma Jahangir has criticised the SC judgment in PCO judges case which declared seven judges, who took oath under...

Dismissing the intra-court appeals of the judges who took oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO), the Supreme Court said on Wednesday that all...

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif said on Tuesday that the generals who violated the constitution and law of the country and the...

The Judicial Activism Panel (JAP) on Saturday demanded the federal government remove Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) members from the parliamentary committee on judges’ appointment,...

As many as 15 recently confirmed and 11 newly appointed additional judges of the Lahore High Court (LHC) took oath of their offices in...

President Asif Ali Zardari Wednesday on the advice of the prime minister approved the appointment of 11 additional judges of LHC and three additional...

Parliamentary Committee on Judges’ Appointment approved the confirmation of 19 additional judges and appointment of 14 new additional judges of the Lahore and Balochistan...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) Administration Committee promoted 33 judicial officers as district and sessions judges and additional district and sessions judges on Saturday. The...

In its detailed verdict on the government’s review petition against a judgement nullifying the decision of the Parliamentary Committee for appointment of superior court...

With the PML-Q becoming part of the treasury benches, the parliamentary committees on judges and the Election Commission of Pakistan are going to be...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court dismissed on Wednesday the government's review petition against an apex court verdict that had overruled the Parliamentary Committee's decision to reject a one-year extension in the services of six additional judges of the Lahore High Court and Sindh High Court.
"We are not inclined to review the judgement," a four-member special bench comprising Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Tariq Parvez and Justice Khilji

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed the federation's review petition against the order setting aside the Parliamentary Committee's recommendations for rejecting judges' appointment.
According to a private TV, the bench, comprising Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Tariq Parvez and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, was hearing the review petition, filed by the government, against the March 4 decision of the apex court setting aside

KARACHI - The Human Rights Commission for South Asia (HRCSA) on Wednesday moved a constitutional petition in the Sindh High Court (SHC) challenging the current format regarding appointment of judges to the upper courts.
HRCSA representative Syed Iqbal Kazmi pleaded the court to term the process of judges' appointment in violation of the constitution, submitting that Article 175(A), included through the 18th Amendment Act 2010 in the constitution, clashes with Article 175(3) over

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court (SC) asked the government on Tuesday to clarify its stance over the role and status of the Parliamentary Committee (PC) vis-a-vis Article 68 of the constitution. "Can eight parliamentarians discuss the conduct of judges when the entire parliament is barred from doing so under Article 68 of the constitution?" questioned Justice Jawwad S Khawaja during arguments of Additional Attorney General KK Agha in the government's review petition against a SC verdict

MINGORA - The All-Parties Conference held under the auspices of Swat Bar Association on Monday demanded the chief justice of Pakistan appoint judges in DarUl Qaza Malakand at the earliest.
The demand was made through a resolution adopted by the APC. The coalition partners in the government were represented by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister Wajid Ali Khan and MNA Syed Alaud Din Khan.
Besides representatives of the Awami National Party and Pakistan People's Party, the APC was

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Monday delayed operation of its verdict until April 11 in which it had overturned the Parliamentary Committee's (PC) decision of rejecting one-year extension to six additional judges of the Lahore and Sindh High Courts recommended by the Judicial Commission of Pakistan, directing the federal government to issue a notification to give them one-year extension. A four-member bench of Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja,

ISLAMABAD - Senators on Thursday demanded a debate on the Supreme Court's ruling against the decision of the parliamentary committee on judges' appointments. The committee had denied extension to four additional judges of the Lahore High Court, but the SC overturned the decision. Ishaq Dar proposed that a detailed judgment of the SC be discussed in the House and recommendations be submitted to the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms to remove lacunae, if any, in the