Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. PHOTO: FILE
The Supreme Court has constituted benches to hear several important cases next week. Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will head a three-judge bench in Quetta and Karachi registries of the apex court, while a three-judge bench led by Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali will hear important cases at the apex court’s Islamabad registry.
A contempt of court case against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan is fixed for August 28 before a bench headed by Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali. Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Ejaz Ahmad Chaudhry are two other members of the bench that will hear the case.
Earlier, a three-judge bench led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had declined to accept Imran Khan’s explanations for terming the judiciary’s role in the general elections as ‘shameful’.
The cases pertaining to missing persons are also listed before different benches of the court at the Islamabad and Quetta registries.
The role of intelligence agencies and lack of interest on part of the federal government drew the ire of the apex court several times during hearings of the missing persons’ case, and those related to the recovery of mutilated bodies in different parts of the restive province.
A case related to mismanagement and irregularities in the affairs of the national flag carrier, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is also fixed on August 26 before a bench headed by Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali.
Next week the media commission case will also be heard as well as petitions related to the unconstitutional increase in petroleum prices.
Justice Jawwad S Khawaja and Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed are two other judges, apart from the chief justice, who will constitute the bench hearing the Balochistan law and order case from August 26, whose petition was filed by Balochistan High Court Bar Association’s president, three years ago.
A two-member bench comprising Justice Gulzar and Justice Athar Saeed will hear cases at the apex court’s Karachi registry.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 25th, 2013.
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By the way Sir, when are you leaving your office? There is a debate in Senate after few days on Judicial Commission pertaining to judges appointments. I think free us from your own interpretations of Constitution. I was reading a book written by Mr. Muhammad Amir Rana. The title was '' Aur Adalat Haar Gae ''. We are witnessing the same since you took office for which you were not even thankful to the previous government.