Islamabad: The federal government has succeeded in nominating 7 judges for the constitutional benches in the next 2 months.
A senior government official has said that Justice Ayesha Malik has also been nominated even though she has given judgments against the current government in the recent past.
In view of the recent controversy, it was difficult to nominate Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Muneeb Akhtar to the Constitution Benches. However, the burden is now on the 7 judges to prove that they have influence despite being nominated by the government. Will work without influence.
Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Justice Ayesha Malik and Justice Hasan Azhar Rizvi were to sign the majority verdict on the reserved seats on July 12.
The judgment is yet to be implemented and revision petitions against the July 12 majority order are still pending. Former President of Sindh High Court Bar Association Salahuddin Ahmed says that the government has successfully implemented the vision of Rana Sanaullah and supported Pakistan Bar Council nominee Akhtar Hussain and self-nominated judge Justice Aminuddin Khan for the Judicial Commission. Obtained, now the benches constituted by the government will hear the cases against the government.
Abdul Moeez Jafari says that the mission of occupying the judiciary has been completed. At the top of the Supreme Court, above the presiding judges of its constitutional benches is a man whose last constitutional opinion was that the government should not obey the Supreme Court, after the hybrid democracy we welcome the Hubbard Judiciary.
Former Additional Attorney General Waqar Rana says that today’s meeting of the Judicial Commission and the appointment of a constitution bench consisting of its judges was expected as these judges used to sit on the bench with former Chief Justice Qazi Faiz Isa and usually followed his decisions. Another lawyer lamented that for the first time Parliament was being used to sideline independent-minded judges. It will be interesting to see which cases will be scheduled for hearing before the Constitution Benches in the next two months.
