As three seats for Supreme Court judges lie vacant, senior apex court judge Justice Qazi Faez Isa has again strongly advocated for the elevation of high court chief justices to the country's superior court in the absence of an objective criteria. Justice Isa also provided reasons as to why junior high court judges should not be elevated to the SC. However, Justice Isa claimed that the practice was discarded by two former CJPs, Mian Saqib Nisar and Gulzar Ahmed. This resulted in the bypassing of chief justices and senior judges of the high courts," Justice Isa wrote. However, Justice Isa claimed, that a few weeks later the ex-CJP proposed the same chief justice for appointment as an ad-hoc judge to the Supreme Court.

Source: The Express Tribune May 29, 2022 01:07 UTC