Full court bench hearing Justice Isa case dissolved.

ISLAMABAD -- A 10- member full bench of the Supreme Court (SC) hearing a set of petitions challenging the presidential reference against Justice Qazi Faez Isa was dissolved on Monday after one of the judges became 'unavailable'. Justice Umar Ata Bandial, who was heading the bench, said as the judges congregated that the bench had been dissolved due to the non-availability of Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel. 'The matter of constituting a new bench is being sent to the chief justice, ' Justice Bandial said. Justice Isa's counsel, Munir A Malik, requested again that a full court bench be formed to hear the case, to which Justice Bandial reminded him that it is up to the chief justice to constitute a bench however he sees fit.

This will be the second time that the chief...