ISLAMABAD: Justice Mansoor Ali Shah has warned against the possible abuse of the practice and has criticized the involvement of intelligence services in the selection of judges.
He made these comments in a letter to the secretary of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP), before a crucial meeting that Chief Justice Yahya Afridi will be chairing.
“Allowing civil intelligence agencies a say in the appointment process is prone to misuse, especially when primacy in the Commission is enjoyed by the Executive,” he said.
“[It] must be avoided,” the senior puisne judge went on to say. Judicial members may depend on personal data gathered from various sources as well as from their fellow judges.
In order to choose judges for constitutional benches, he recommended that the panel establish a transparent process that includes calculating the number of constitutional
