QUETTA, Aug 13 The vice-president of Balochistan National Party (Mengal), Advocate Sajid Tareen, has said that he and other lawyers will file a petition in the Supreme Court to challenge the appointment of Justice Faez Isa Qazi as the Chief Justice of Balochistan High Court, claiming that the appointment had been made without fulfilling constitutional requirements.

The BNP leader alleged that Justice Faez Isa was not an impartial person because he had written articles in a newspaper which were not in the interest of Balochistan

Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, he said that judges of the Supreme Court who had refused to take oath in 2000 under the PCO should be restored to condemn the coup and takeover by former COAS on Oct 12, 1999.

He said the July 31 verdict of the Supreme Court was confined to the action taken by Gen Pervez Musharraf on Nov 3, 2007, and the lawyers' movement was for restoration of complete rule of law and, therefore, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui, Justice Wajihuddin Ahmed and Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid should be reinstated as judges of the Supreme Court.

He said that Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was a member of the bench which had endorsed the military takeover of Oct 12, 1999.