CJ sees Constitution as lacking sans intra-party polls
ISLAMABAD: The appointments against vacant positions for judges should be made only through advertisement, AK Dogar Advocate said Monday.
A 17-judge larger bench heard the constitutional petitions filed against the 18th Amendment.
Talking to media outside the court, Advocate AK Dogar said the rights of political workers have been encroached upon through abolishing the elections within the political parties, adding how can Law contain it seeing the same has been banished from the Constitution.
On this, the Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry, while giving his remarks, said command of the Constitution regarding intra-party elections would be whittled down to nothing as parties’ elections were put to an end.
Advocate AK Dogar of Lawyers’ Forum said the Executive and the Legislature work for rule of Law; while, judiciary has been put aside from these pillars of the state, adding the previous method for the appointment of the judges was bogus.
He demanded the vacancies for the judges should be advertised, so that all the lawyers could have opportunities.
Earlier, AK Dogar completed his arguments against 18th Amendment. Subsequently, another petitioner High Court Bar Rawalpindi President Zulfiqar Naqvi was asked to put forward his arguments.
He said he without a demur supports the arguments of Hamid Khan Advocate and Ikram Sheikh Advocate in the case.
Supreme Court (SC) adjourned the hearing of case till tomorrow.
Supreme Court of Pakistan reserves verdict on Dogar’s appeals
November 10, 2009 by Trend PK
Filed under Breaking News
Lahore, Pakistan News : Supreme Court of Pakistan has reserved decision after hearing appeals filed against objections on former Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar’s petitions.
The verdict is likely to be announced on Wednesday.
Justice Ghulam Rabbani heard the appeals of Abdul Hameed Dogar in his chamber and Dogar’s counsel Naeem Bukhari gave his arguments. The former chief justice had challenged restoration of judges in one petition whereas he had requested to review July 31 verdict in other petition. The registrar office of the SC had returned both the petitions with objections. Dogar had filed appeals against the objections on his petitions.
Supreme Court of Pakistan reserves verdict on Dogar’s appeals was first posted on November 10, 2009 at 8:42 pm.
