Judicial policy would likely to delay judges appointment: CJ
Pakistan
Judicial policy would likely to delay judges appointment: CJ
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry observed that the new judicial policy would likely to slow down the judges appointment procedure. A 17-member bench headed by the CJ was hearing the cases against some clauses of 18th amendment on Thursday. During the course of hearing, the CJ deplored that none of the parliamentarians had thought nor argued about the snags that would hit the new policy regarding the judges appointment, and cited the examples of delayed appointment of Election Commission members and Chairman NAB. Justice Javed Iqbal remarked that the merit had been ignored in judges appointment in the past too; junior judges of Balochistan High Court were upgraded to the SC. The States counsel contended that the CJ has got final authority in the new policy, while Justice Ramday questioned that if the CJ is sovereign than what was the need of new judicial policy.
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