CJP appointment:Three names sent to parliamentary committee

ISLAMABAD :The Registrar of the Supreme Court on Tuesday sent three names to the parliamentary committee on behalf of the Chief Justice of Pakistan for the selection of next chief justice. Law Ministry wrote a letter to the Registrar seeking the names of three senior-most judges for the new chief justice.The names of Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, Justice Munib Akhtar and Justice Yahya Afridi, the three most senior judges, have been sent to the parliamentary committee. 12-member parliamentary committee set up under the 26th constitutional amendment for the appointment of chief justice is scheduled to meet at 4pm.National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq on Monday constituted a 12-member parliamentary committee to appoint the next Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) for a three-year term.
Committee, established following the 26th Amendment to the Constitution, includes representatives from both the National Assembly and the Senate.It comprises MNAs Khawaja Asif, Ahsan Iqbal, Shaista Pervaiz Malik, Raja Pervez Ashraf, Syed Naveed Qamar, Rana Ansar, Gohar Ali Khan, Sahibzada Muhammad Hamid Raza, and Senators Farooq Hameed Naik, Azam Nazeer Tarar, Syed Ali Zafar and Kamran Murtaza. Khawaja Asif, Ahsan Iqbal, Shaista Pervaiz Malik and Senator Azam Nazeer Tarar belong to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) while Raja Pervez Ashraf, Syed Naveed Qamar and Senator Farooq H. Naik are from Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). Senator Kamran Murtaza represents Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) while Rana Ansar is a woman lawmaker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P). Gohar Ali Khan, Sahibzada Muhammad Hamid Raza and Senator Syed Ali Zafar are representatives of Sunni Itehad Council (SIC) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). 12-member special parliamentary committee will select the chief justice from three senior-most judges. 26th constitutional amendment, the chief justice will send the names of three senior-most judges of the Supreme Court to the National Assembly speaker. The speaker will refer the names to the parliamentary committee which will “pick” the chief justice.