KARACHI, Aug 29: President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday approved the appointment of eight additional judges of the Sindh High Court.

Shaukat Ali Memon, district and sessions judge, Karachi (central), Shahnawaz Tariq, district and sessions judge, Karachi (west), Ashraf Jehan, district and sessions judge/director instruction federal judicial academy, Abdul Malik Gaddi, district and sessions judge/registrar of the Sindh High Court, Hassan Feroze, district and sessions judge, Hyderabad, Advocate Nazar Akbar, Advocate Mohammad Junaid Ghaffar and Advocate Zafar Ahmed Rajput have been appointed additional judges of the SHC for a period of one year.

The president made the appointments on the advice of the prime minister who had received the nominations from the parliamentary committee on judges’ appointment in the superior judiciary.