Extenstion for CJP: Registrar’s office returns petition

LAHORE: The Supreme Court registrar’s office on Thursday returned with objections a petition that sought a 22-month extension in the tenure of Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.  The CJP is due to retire on December 11 this year. The office noted that the petitioner, a member of Save Judiciary Committee, was not the aggrieved person and also said that the apex court was not the right forum to seek such a remedy. Imtiaz Rasheed Qureshi, the petitioner, had said that the CJP merited an extension because he had been detained for a year and 10 months by former president Pervez Musharraf.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 31^st, 2013.