ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Supreme Court’s senior judge Justice Mansoor Ali Shah has expressed concerns over the newly promulgated Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Amendment Ordinance that deals with the affairs of the apex court including the formation of benches.
In a letter written to the Secretary of the Supreme Court on Monday, Justice Mansoor Ali Shah stated that within hours of the promulgation of the ordinance, the judges committee was reconstituted and Justice Munib Akhtar of the Supreme Court was removed from the composition of the committee.
Justice Mansoor, in his letter, said that no reasons were given as to why the second senior most judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Munib Akhtar, was removed from the composition of the Committee.
“Furthermore, no reasons were given why the next senior most judge was ignored and instead, the fourth senior most judge was nominated as a member of the Committee.”
“Such unfortunate cherry picking and undemocratic display of one-man show are precisely what the Act tried to discourage and replace-a stance that was upheld by the Full Court Bench of this Court in Raja Amer,” Justice Mansoor Ali Shah wrote.
