Superannuation: CJ Jillani to retire next month

Justice Nasirul Mulk, the senior most judge will be the new chief justice of Pakistan.


APP June 05, 2014

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani will retire on July 5, at the age of 65 years after serving more than ten years as judge and Chief Justice of the apex court. Justice Nasirul Mulk, the senior most judge will be the new chief justice of Pakistan. He belongs to K-P and remained chief justice of the Peshawar High Court before his elevation as judge of the supreme court. Justice Jillani took oath as a judge of the Lahore High Court on August, 7, 1994 and was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on July 31, 2004 where he served till the imposition of the state of emergency on November 3, 2007. As he refused to take a fresh oath, he was made dysfunctional. He took oath again as judge of the Supreme Court in year 2008. He has participated and represented in a number of international meetings, conferences seminars and dialogues.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 5th, 2014.

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