Three Supreme Court justices on Friday urged Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Yahya Afridi to hold off on eight appointments to the apex court until challenges to the 26th Constitutional Amendment were resolved.
The Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) is set to meet on February 11 to consider filling eight vacant seats of judges at the Supreme Court. The JCP approves judicial appointments. It was reconstituted to include four members of parliament by the Constitution (Twenty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2024, which brought numerous changes pertaining to the judiciary.
The Supreme Court’s Constitutional Bench has taken up challenges to the amendment however there are various calls for a full court to hear the matter.
A letter, seen by Dawn.com, on the above situation was sent today to CJP Afridi and the JCP members. The letter was signed by SC senior puisne judge Justice Mansoor Ali Shah and Justices Munib Akhtar, Athar Minallah and Ayesha Malik.
“It is requested that the scheduled meeting and the appointment of eight new judges … be postponed till the challenge to the 26th Constitutional Amendment is decided one way or the other, or at least until the Constitutional Bench decides the applications for convening a full court to hear and determine that challenge and till the matter of the transfer of judges to the Islamabad High Court and their seniority is finally determined on the judicial side (since we are given to understand that such challenges have been launched),” the letter reads.
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