Dawood Ahmed:
ISLAMABAD: The Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) has approved the nomination of five senior lawyers from Balochistan as additional judges of the High Court.
A meeting of the commission, a body responsible for approving the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court and high courts of the country, was held under the chairmanship of Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial.
The Balochistan High Court chief justice had recommended the names of five lawyers for the posts — Iqbal Ahmed Kasi, Shaukat Ali Rakhshani, Gul Hassan Tareen, Muhammad Aamir Nawaz Rana and Sardar Ahmed Haleemi.
Rahib Buledi from Balochistan participated in the meeting
Sources told Quetta Voice that during the meeting, four JCP members — Balochistan Bar Council representative Rahib Bulaidee, Pakistan Bar Council representative Akhtar Hussain, Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar, and Attorney General for Pakistan Ashtar Ausaf Ali — suggested that instead of approving all of them, two names should be given the nod for their appointment.
They believed that the total pending cases in the province were around 5,000 while nine judges were already working at the high court.
They added that apart from that, there was no infrastructure to start benches in Khuzdar and Loralai.
They insisted that only two names should be recommended for appointments to save the public exchequer.
