ISLAMABAD: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari accepted on Wednesday the appointment of Justice Yahya Afridi, the third most senior choose of the supreme courtroom, because the nation’s subsequent chief justice after he was chosen on Tuesday evening by a 12-member parliamentary panel.
The facility to nominate a chief justice has shifted to parliament following a current controversial modification to the structure.Afridi’s appointment was made by a 12-member government-dominated parliamentary committee tasked with selecting one of many three senior-most SC judges to succeed Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa, who is ready to retire on Friday.
A notification issued on Wednesday by the legislation and justice ministry acknowledged that the president was happy to nominate Justice Afridi as the following chief justice for a time period of three years with impact from October 26.
The brand new laws, often known as the twenty sixth Constitutional Modification, has additionally taken away the SC’s suo moto powers and given a vital function to the manager within the formation of the constitutional bench, which now must be nominated by a judicial fee full of authorities nominees.
Up to now the president used to nominate the senior-most SC choose as chief justice; in response to this method senior puisne choose Mansoor Ali Shah was set to take cost.
The authorized fraternity and jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) have individually introduced protest campaigns in opposition to the laws, which they describe as an try and make the judiciary subservient to the manager.
Senior lawyer and senator Hamid Khan urged Justice Yahya Afridi to reject the federal government’s provide to imagine the function of chief justice. “Yahya Afridi ought to look forward to his flip and protect his honour and title. The federal government’s provide is designed to create divisions inside the judiciary,” Hamid mentioned at a press convention.
