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SC summons AG in plea seeking
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday issued a **tice to the attorney general on a petition seeking judges’ appointment for high courts through competition examination. A two-member bench of the apex court comprising Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamli and Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed heard the petition filed by the Lawyers Foundation for Justice. The Foundation had prayed to the court to abolish the powers of chief justices of high courts of **minating lawyers for their appointments as judges of the high courts. The petitioner had further prayed that appointment of lawyers as judges of high courts should be made through competition examination.On Monday, while hearing the instant petition, Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali observed that an important legal matter has been raised in the petition and issued a **tice to the attorney general for Pakistan and adjourned the hearing after the court’s vacation. A K Dogar, counsel for the petitioner, while arguing before the court, contended that as per Rule 3, sub-Rule 2 of Rules 2010, chief justices of the learned high courts were empowered to **minate to the Judicial Commission, on their own choice, the names of lawyers, having more than 10 years practicing experience for appointment as judges of the high courts on vacant posts. The learned counsel further contended that due to this, majority of lawyers who were appointed as judges of high courts were sons of former judges or close relatives of reputed lawyers. Dogar pleaded that the rule under which the chief justices of high courts were empowered to **minate names for appointment of judges of high courts be declared ultra vires to articles 193 (2), A, A-2, 18 and article 4 of the Constitution. He further submitted that in many countries, including the United Kingdom, judges for high courts were appointed through competition exams, but, in Pakistan, judges appointment powers were in the hands of an individual He prayed the apex court to declare the Rule 3 sub-Rule 2 of Rules 2010 of Judicial Commission as null and void and issue directives that appointment of judges of high courts should be made through competition examination. أكثر... 
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