Judgment to affect 110 judges of various courts

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ISLAMABAD, July 31 At least 110 judges of the Supreme Court, Federal Shariat Court and high courts will retire or revert to their respective institutions after the landmark judgment of the apex court in the judges' case.

The judgment will affect 15 judges of the Supreme Court, 41 of the Lahore High Court, 27 of the Sindh High Court, 10 from the Peshawar High Court, all five of the Balochistan High Court and eight of the Islamabad High Court and four from the Federal Shariat Court.

Supreme Court judges who took oath under PCO are Justice Faqir Muhammad Khokhar and Justice M Javed Butter. Both will also face a reference before the Supreme Judicial Council for taking oath in disregard of a restraining order issued by a seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court moments after the declaration of emergency on November 3, 2007.

Those who were appointed after Nov 3 are Justice Ijazul Hassan, Justice Qaim Jan Khan, Justice Moosa K. Leghari, Justice Chaudhry Ejaz Yousaf, Justice Mian Hamid Farooq, Justice Syed Zawar Hussain Jaffry, Justice Zia Perwez, Justice Sheikh Hakim Ali, Justice Syed Sakhi Hussain Bukhari, Justice Farrukh Mehmood, Justice Akhtar Shabbir, Justice Sardar Mohammad Aslam.

In the LHC, judges who took oath under PCO are Justice Sayyed Zahid Hussain, Justice Mian M. Najamuz Zaman, Justice Maulvi Anwarul Haq, Justice Nasim Sikandar, Justice Abdul Shakoor Paracha, Justice Mohammad Khalid Alvi, Justice M. Bilal Khan, Justice Fazale Miran Chauhan, Justice Syed Shabbar Raza Rizvi, Syed Hamid Ali Shah, Justice S. Sajjad Hussain Shah, Justice Tariq Shamim, Justice Syed Asghar Haider and Justice Hasnat Ahmad Khan.

Similarly judges elevated after Nov 3 are Justice Zubdatul Hussain, Justice Saifur Rehman, Justice Zafar Iqbal Chaudhary, Justice S Ali Hassan Rizvi, Justice Saghir Ahmad, Justice Khwaja Farooq Saeed, Justice M. Akram Qureshi, Justice Khurshid Anwar Bhindar, Justice Muzhar Hussain Minhas, Justice Mohammad Ashraf Bhatti, Justice Rana Zahid Mehmood, Justice Kazim Ali Malik, Justice Hafiz Tariq Nasim, Justice Khalil Ahmad, Justice M.A. Zafar, Justice Malik Saeed Ejaz, Justice S. Shaheen Masood Rizvi, Justice Ali Akber Qureshi and Justice Mohammad Ahsan Bhoon.

Jugdes appointed on March 2 this year are Justice Parvaiz Ali Chawla, Justice Habibullah Shakir, Justice Nazir Ahmed Ghazi, Justice Abdul Sattar Goraya, Justice Syed Ihtasham Qadir Shah, Justice Jamila Jahanoor Aslam, Justice Mahmood Akhtar Khan, Justice Jamshed Rehmatullah, Justice Pervez Inayat Malik, Justice Arshad Mahmood, Justice Irfan Qadir, Justice Syed Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari, Justice Chaudhry Naeem Masood, Justice Anwarul Haq Pannun, Justice Raja Mohammad Shafqat Khan Abbasi, Justice Imitaz Rasheed Siddiqui.

PCO judges in the SHC are Chief Justice M. Afzal Soomro, Justice Azizullah M. Memon, Justice Munib Ahmad Khan, Justice Yasmin Abbasey, Justice Qaiser Iqbal, Justice Ali Sain Dino Metlo, Justice Nadeem Azhar Siddiqi, Justice Syed Mahmood Alam Rizvi and Justice Abdur Rehman Faruq Pirzada.

Those who were elevated after Nov 3 are Justice Dr Rana M. Shamim, Justice Khwaja Naveed Ahmad, Justice Khalid Ali Z. Qazi, Justice Syed Pir Ali Shah, Justice Bin Yamin, Justice Arshad Noor, Justice Maqbool Ahmed Awan, Justice Safdar Ali Bhutto, Justice Moharram G. Baloch, Justice Malik Mohammad Aqil, Justice Syed Shafqat Ali Shah Masoomi, Justice Soofia Latif, Justice Mohammad Iqbal Mahar, Justice Khadim Hussain M. Shaikh, Justice Mohammad Ismail Bhutto, Justice Arshad Siraj Memon, Justice Aamir Raza Naqvi and Justice Mohammad Karim Khan Agha.

In the PHC the PCO judges are Justice Jehan Zaib Rahim, Justice Raj Mohammad, Justice Said Maroof Khan and Justice Hamid Farooq Durrani.

Those who were elevated after Nov 3 are Justice Ghulam Mohyuddin Malik, Justice Syed Yahya Zahid Gillani, Justice Ziauddin Khattak, Justice Syed Musadiq H. Gillani, Justice S. Shahji Rahman Khan and Justice Mohammad Alam Khan.

From BHC, Justice Amanullah Khan, Justice Ahmed Khan Leghari, Justice Akhtar Zaman Malghani, Justice Nadir Khan Durrani and Justice Mehta Kailash Nath Kohli.

In Islamabad High Court, Justice Mohammad Munir Peracha, Justice Dr Sajjid Qureshi, Justice Qalbe Hassan, Justice Raja Saeed Akram, Justice Arshad Tabrez, Justice Amjad Iqbal Qureshi, Justice Ramzan Chaudhary and Justice Intikhab Shah.

From the Federal Shariat Court, Justice Dr Fida Khan, Justice Afzal Haider and Justice Yasin.

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