JCP meets today: Panel suggests delay in appointments

Sources says committee has to receive clearance reports regarding nominees from intelligence agencies.

ISLAMABAD: As the meeting of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) is being held today regarding the appointment of high court judges, a sub-committee of the JCP has recommended a postponement in the appointment of three Islamabad High Court judges. Sources told The Express Tribune that a meeting of a four-member JCP committee headed by retired Supreme Court judge Rahmat Hussain Jafferi was held on Monday to examine the eligibility of 12 lawyers as well as shortlist the names for three IHC judges. The other three members of the committee are the IHC’s senior-most judge Justice Riaz Ahmad Khan, Attorney General for Pakistan Salman Aslam Butt and Pakistan Bar Council’s representative Yasin Azad, they added. Sources said the committee has yet to receive clearance reports regarding the nominees from intelligence agencies; therefore, it has recommended a postponement.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 4^th, 2014.