KARACHI, Dec 14: The chief justice of the Sindh High Court, Justice Mohammed Afzal Soomro, on Friday administered oath to eight newly-appointed additional judges at the Sindh High Court library.

The new judges are: Justice Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan, Justice Syed Pir Ali Shah, Justice Bin Yamin, Justice Arshad Noor Khan, Justice Dr Qamaruddin Bohra, Justice Ghulam Dastagir Shahani, Justice Farrukh Zia Sheikh and Justice Abdul Qadir Khan.—APP

Our reporter adds: Three members of the Pakistan Bar Council strongly condemned the appointment of judges to the Peshawar and Sindh high courts.

Advocates Hamid Khan, Rasheed A. Razvi and Yusuf Leghari said the appointments, made only a couple of days before the withdrawal of the emergency and the provisional constitution order, were patently mala fide. On the one hand, the government was packing the superior courts with its favourites and on the other, it was trying to forestall the return of the judges who did not take oath under the November 3 PCO.

Mr Khan and Mr Leghari had come to Karachi to attend a meeting of the PBC legal committee.