Minister for Law and Justice Senator Azam Nazeer Tarar hinted on Friday that they intended to create a “balance” in the system by proposing constitutional revisions that would alter the current method of choosing justices for both the Supreme Court and lower courts.
During a meeting chaired by Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) to consider suggested changes to the organization’s 2010 guidelines, he made these remarks. Among those in attendance at the huddle was the law minister.
The reforms aim to do away with the practice of appointing the most senior judge as chief justice of high courts, as well as the automatic promotion of chief justices of high courts to the highest court.
The federal minister claimed in a statement that, in the wake of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, the Parliamentary Committee on Judicial Appointments only served as a “rubber stamp.”
He went on to say that the judges’ appointments ought to be made with “balance.”
The minister stated, “I will not completely reject proposals regarding the tenure of the chief justice,” in reference to the ideas concerning the chief justice’s term that are making the rounds on social media.
