ISLAMABAD: Senior judge of Pakistan’s Supreme Court, Justice Aminuddin Khan, was on Thursday appointed the first Chief Justice of the newly created Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) of the country.
The development comes hours after the 27th Constitutional Amendment was signed into law by President Asif Ali Zardari.
A notification from the law ministry said President Zardari made the appointment under clause (3) of Article 175A read with Article 175C of the Constitution, adding that it would come into effect from the date that Justice Aminuddin Khan took his oath.
The judge will take the oath at the Presidency tomorrow at 10am. The chief justices and judges of superior courts, high-ranking officials, have been invited to participate in the oath-taking ceremony.
Justice Khan was born in Multan in 1960. A second-generation lawyer, he earned his LLB from University Law College, Multan, in 1984 and began practice under his father, Khan Sadiq Muhammad Ahsan.
He became an advocate of the Lahore High Court (LHC) in 1987 and of the Supreme Court in 2001. He joined Zafar Law Chambers in Multan in 2001 and worked with the legal firm until he was elevated to the position of a judge in 2011, where he decided civil cases on the Multan and Bahawalpur benches.
He was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice in 2019, taking his oath of office from then-chief justice Asif Saeed Khosa.
He was made the head of the Supreme Court’s Constitutional Bench in November 2024.
Justice Khan has decided thousands of cases pertaining to civil matters, and most of his judgments have been upheld by the Supreme Court.
The Federal Constitutional Court was established as part of the judicial reforms package incorporated in the 27th Constitutional Amendment Bill.
