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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senator and senior lawyer Hamid Khan said that the lawyer’s community challenged the nomination of six judges to the Supreme Court by the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) in the apex court, declaring to continue the “protest movement“.
As per details, the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) met yesterday to discuss the appointment of eight judges to the Supreme Court. The meeting was chaired by the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Yahya Afridi.
The Judicial Commission of Pakistan nominated six judges to the Supreme Court on Monday. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senator and senior lawyer Hamid Khan called the nomination unlawful and said that the lawyer’s community challenged the nomination and declared to continue the “protest movement”.
While talking to the private media channel Hamid Khan said, “The appointment has no legitimacy as two senior judges and the opposition lawmakers walked out of the meeting…they [newly-nominated SC judges] would have to go”.
Hamid said that “there was no consensus in the entire process of the appointments, terming them a “unilateral selection”.
He further said, “Immediately, it may not be possible, but our struggle will be long. We will continue to stand against today’s appointment because there was only one vacancy…how could you fill seven or eight [vacancies]”.
Responding to another question, the PTI Senator said, “The matter is related to SC judges’ appointment…it is not linked with the formation of the constitutional court.”
Furthermore, he said, “Our struggle may last six months or a year, the situation in the apex court and other high courts, is not workable.”
When asked if the full court would also consist of newly appointed judges, Hamid responded that they cannot be part of the bench because their “appointment would become disputed”.
“They cannot be judges in their own cause,” he said. Similarly, the matter cannot be heard by a constitutional bench, he added.
Hamid said that there was no consensus in the entire process of the appointments, terming them a “unilateral selection”.
His remarks came hours after the judicial commission nominated six high court judges for elevation to the Supreme Court, including the chief justices of all high courts except the Lahore High Court (LHC).
It is worth mentioning here that the nominated judges are included Justice Muhammad Hashim Khan Kakar, Justice Muhammad Shafi Siddiqui, Justice Salahuddin Panhwar, Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim, Justice Shakeel Ahmad and Justice Aamer Farooq.