Karachi: Pakistan’s Attorney General Irfan Qadir on Friday said that judges cannot be appointed without the consent of president.
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday ordered the government to issue the notification of Justice Shaukat Siddiqui and Justice Noorul Haq’s appointment in the Islamabad High Court (IHC).
A five-member larger bench of the apex court headed by Justice Khilji Arif Hussain comprising Justice Tariq Parvez, Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed announced the short judgment on a constitutional petition filed by Nadim Ahmed Advocate against the non-issuance of notification of judges’ appointment in the IHC.
Talking to media, Qadir said that no institution had authority to issue the order of the appointment of judges.
“Notification is not worthy with the consent of president,” he said.
He further added that the president had to consider constitution rather than obeying the orders of the apex court of the country.
It is to be mentioned here that the two judges, Justice Siddiqui and Justice Qureshi, had earlier been nominated by the Judicial Commission (JC) and approved by the Parliamentary Committee (PC) under Article 175A inserted in the Constitution under the 18th and 19th Amendments.
Their terms expired on Nov 20 after the President House returned the recommendations to the JC with an observation to reconsider the nominations because the commission which had finalised the names had not been constituted properly.
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