ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Chief Justice Yahya Afridi has been set up today for the appointment of eight judges to the Pakistan Judicial Commission (JCP).
During today’s meeting, Hudl will consider five senior judges from four high courts, sources say Geo message.
It is expected that two judges from the Sindh and the Islamabad High Courts and a judge each from Peshawar and Balochistan High Courts will be raised to the Supreme Court.
However, before the meeting, four Supreme Court judges, including two commission members, including Justice Mansur Ali Shah and Justice Munip Akhtar, have demanded the postponement of the session.
A letter written by Justice Aisha and Justice Adar Minalla called for the JCP meeting to be postponed “until the challenge for the 26th Amendment, until the end of the decision or the other.”
Following the JCP’s current members, CJP Afridi, Justice Shah, Justice Akhtar, Justice Amin-Ud-Tin Khan, Pakistan Mansur Osman Awan, Union Minister of Law and Justice Assam Nasir Tar and Pakistan Bar Representatives include Akhtar Hussein and MPs from the Treasury and Opposition Benches.
In addition, Senator Ali Jafar, a member of the Commission’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has called for the adjournment of the meeting.
Meanwhile, six leading bar associations rejected calls for protests and strikes against the JCP session.
In a joint statement, representatives of the Pakistan Bar Council, the Supreme Court Bar Association, the Punjab Bar Council, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council, the Balochistan High Court Bar Association and the Indus High Court Bar Association condemned the meeting.
They accused some political groups in the legal community of trying to improve their controversial agenda through such demonstrations.
The reports reiterated the full support of the JCP’s actions, and emphasized that the combination of the commission is well uniform.
Bar Associations approved the 26th Amendment and subsequent laws, considering the integrated areas of the Constitution.
They further stressed that representative organizations have the power to invite the strike.
