ISLAMABAD: The yet to be formed eight-member parliamentary committee (PC), which is envisaged to allow parliament to play a role in the nomination of judges, came under fire in Court Room One on Tuesday.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry observed that a high court judge would be condemned forever if the committee disapproved his name for elevation to the Supreme Court, adding that the judiciary could not afford litigation on such issues. The chief justice made the observation during the hearing of several petitions against the 18th Amendment. He said if findings of the committee were justiciable then judiciary, being an important organ of the state, could not afford such litigation.
The observation was made when Advocate Shahid Hamid, representing the Punjab government and pleading in favour of the committee, argued that the committee would have to record sound reasons for refusing to confirm a nomination made by the judicial commission.
