Islamabad: Pakistan’s legal fraternity is up in arms against the attempt by the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) to elevate Justice Ayesha Malik to the country’s Supreme Court by superseding at least three senior judges, Dawn reported here on Thursday.
The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has called a meeting on January 3, 2022, ahead of the JCPs meeting on January 5 to chalk out an appropriate strategy to resist the elevation of Justice Malik. The JCP will on January 5 try to complete the unfinished agenda to elevate Justice Ayesha A Malik of the Lahore High Court to the SC.
Earlier on September 9, a lack of consensus during an extended meeting had forced the JCP to defer Justice Malik’s elevation as the first-ever woman judge in Pakistan’s judicial history to enter the SC.
