- Ali Zafar-Meesha Shafi harassment case to be heard in the present day.
- Matter of Conference Centre’s non-public use to be taken up.
- Case pertaining to jurisdiction of GB courts in Pakistan.
ISLAMABAD: The six-member constitutional bench has resumed listening to of instances which have been pending within the Supreme Court docket for years on Friday (in the present day).
The brand new bench, constituted beneath the twenty sixth Constitutional Modification, held its first-ever listening to of instances on Thursday, aiming to clear the massive backlog and supply justice to petitioners.
The Justice Amin-ud-Din Khan-led bench needed to hear round 34 instances as per the trigger checklist for November 14 and 15. Eighteen of those instances had been scheduled for Thursday and the remaining 16 set for Friday (in the present day).
With Justice Khan within the lead, the constitutional bench contains Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi, Justice Musarrat Hilali and Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan.
Owing to the unavailability of Justice Ayesha A Malik on November 14 and 15, a related committee had determined {that a} bench comprising all accessible judges must be constituted to proceed with the instances on these dates.
The bench will hear numerous natures of instances in the present day together with a case pertaining to bringing again cash allegedly stashed overseas after embezzlement right here, a case concerning girls’s harassment at an workplace, the lengthy due case of harassment between two celebrities — Ali Zafar and Meesha Shafi, the matter of Islamabad Conference Centre’s non-public use, ambit of Gilgit-Baltistan courts in Pakistan in addition to completely different petitions of Defence Minister Khawaja Asif pertaining to power initiatives.
Yesterday, the bench had performed listening to of 18 instances together with one difficult appointment of former chief justice Qazi Faez Isa because the Balochistan Excessive Court docket (BHC) chief justice and one other associated to environmental hazards.