PESHAWAR, May 3: The judicial history of the country saw an unprecedented event when a Peshawar High Court bench comprising all women judges functioned.

The bench comprising Justice Irshad Qaiser and Justice Musarrat Hilali heard around 60 cases the other day.

In a statement issued here, former Supreme Court Bar Association vice-president Barrister Baachaa said never in the judicial history of the country had been an occasion when a bench comprised women judges until Thursday when a PHC bench consisted of two women judges.

“By this groundbreaking first, the Peshawar High Court has like in some cases in the recent past yet again given a lead to the other superior courts of the country,” he said.

The former SCBA vice-president said Justice Irshad Qaiser and Justice Musarrat Hilali would convince skeptics that the women of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were socially, intellectually and professionally on a par, if not above, with the women of other parts of the country.

He said the bench of the two women judges presented a softer image of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the world at large that the women of the province were not necessarily confined to the four walls of their homes but that they were shouldering the responsibilities and the trust posed in them with grace and confidence.