Don't 'Ridicule' Judicial Commission By 'Contravening Constitution': Justice Isa To CJP.

Senior most Judge of the Supreme Court Justice Qazi Faez Isa has written a letter to the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP), seeking postponement of its meeting scheduled on July 28, 2022, for the appointment of Sindh and Lahore high courts judges to the apex court, a matter that 'requires utmost care and due deliberation as it is a matter of extreme delicacy'.

The justice has severely criticized Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial for scheduling the meeting at such a time when he (Isa) is not able to physically attend the meeting as he is currently on leave abroad.

He stated in the letter that while on annual leave, he received a WhatsApp message from the Additional Registrar of the Supreme Court that the CJ has called a meeting of the JCP on July 28 to consider appointing five judges to the SC.

'No meeting of the JCP was scheduled before I applied for the annual leave but as soon as I left Pakistan the CJ decided to hold two meetings of the JCP to consider appointments to the Sindh and Lahore High Courts, and now a third unscheduled meeting of the JCP is to be held during the summer vacations of the SC,' Isa wrote.

He said that the summer vacations of the SC were notified by the CJ himself and later gazetted in the Official Gazette. He said that 'if the CJ renders his own notification utterly meaningless then let him first withdraw it, instead of violating it'.

Moreover, he mentioned that he was referred to 2,347 pages of documents regarding the appointment of judges through WhatsApp.

'The CJ wants to rush through a most delicate matter in a very questionable manner. He wants 2,347 pages of documents to be examined in a week.'

He complained that he was unable to view all the pages as he could access and read only 14 out of 2,347 pages.

'[...] the documents have still not been couriered to me or sent to the Pakistan Embassy at Madrid for onward transmission to me,' he said.

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