Judicial Commission Approves 7-Member Constitutional Bench.

Islamabad: The Judicial Commission of Pakistan has approved a seven-member Constitutional Bench with Justice Amin-ud-Din Khan as its Chairman and having representation of all the four provinces. The approval was given at the first ever meeting of the reconstituted Judicial Commission, held at the Supreme Court of Pakistan in Islamabad.

According to Radio Pakistan, Chief Justice of Pakistan and Chairman of the Judicial Commission, Justice Yahya Afridi presided over the meeting. The Constitutional Bench has been constituted with a seven-member vote for a term of two months, while five members opposed the majority decision.

The other members of the Judicial Commission include Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Justice Ayesha A. Malik, Justice Hasan Azhar Rizvi, Justice Musarrat Hilali, and Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan. The meeting was attended by Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, Justice Munib Akhtar, Justice Amin-ud-Din Khan, Federal Minister for Law and Justice Azam Nazeer Tarar, Attorney-Gen
eral for Pakistan, Mansoor Usman Awan, Senator Farooq Hamid Naek, Senator Syed Shibli Faraz, Sheikh Aftab Ahmad and Members of the National Assembly Umar Ayub Khan and Roshan Khurshid Bharucha.