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CJP convenes urgent full court meeting on judges’ letter

Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa convened a full court meeting of the Supreme Court judges over a letter sent to him by six Islamabad High Court judges.

Islamabad: CJP convenes urgent full court meeting on judges’ letter. In the letter, the judges have accused the country’s intelligence agencies of meddling with judicial affairs and pressuring the judges.

The full court meeting began at around 4pm on Wednesday lasted for over two hours until after 6pm.

Sources told  that the judges examined the letter and discussed taking the matter to a full court bench of the Supreme Court or the Supreme Judicial Council.

Earlier in the day, the attorney general met with the CJP over the issue.

The letter from Justice Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kiyani, Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, Justice Babar Sattar, Justice Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan, Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir, and Justice Rafat Imtiaz was received by the CJP Tuesday.

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The contents of the letter included at least two appendices containing details of the letters sent to the Islamabad High Court chief justice by the same six judges.

CJP convenes urgent full court meeting on judges’ letter

The chief justice of Pakistan  is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and is the highest-ranking officer of the Pakistani judiciary. The officeholder is the senior most of 17 justices of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

The Federal Court of Pakistan was established by Governor-General Jinnah‘s Order in February 1948. Until 1956, the chief justice and senior justices were known by the title of ‘Federal Judge’, and the Federal Court of Pakistan operated out of a wing of the Lahore High Court, despite the federal capital’s location in Karachi. The enactment of Pakistan’s first constitution in March 1956 redesigned it as the ‘Supreme Court of Pakistan.’ 

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