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The Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) meeting will held today to discuss the appointment of eight judges to the Supreme Court.
Reportedly, The Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) meeting will held today to discuss the appointment of eight judges to the Supreme Court. The meeting will chaired by the Chief Justic of Pakistan(CJP) Yahya Afridi.
As per details, in the meeting, the appointments of five senior judges from each of the four high courts will be discussed.
It is anticipated that two judges from both the Sindh and Islamabad High Courts, along with one judge each from the Peshawar and Balochistan High Courts, will be elevated to the Supreme Court.
On the other hand, four Supreme Court judges, including two commission members, Justice Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Munib Akhtar, have requested to hold on the session through a letter written to the CJP.
Justice Ayesha A Malik wrote the letter and Justice Athar Minallah, called for the JCP meeting to be deferred “till the challenge to the 26th Constitutional Amendment is decided one way or the other”.
Following the 26th Amendment, the current members of the JCP include CJP Afridi, Justice Shah, Justice Akhtar, Justice Amin-ud-Din Khan, Attorney General for Pakistan Mansoor Usman Awan, Federal Minister for Law and Justice Azam Nazir Tarar, Pakistan Bar Council representative Akhtar Hussain, and parliamentary members from both the treasury and opposition benches.
It is worth mentioning here that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Senator Barrister Syed Ali Zafar also wrote a letter to postpone the Judicial Commission of Pakistan’s (JCP) meeting held today for the appointment of eight judges to the Supreme Court.