Special Parliamentary Committee to finalise name of CJP today

ISLAMABAD; A first meeting of Special Parliamentary Committee will be held today at Parliament House to finalise the name of new Chief Justice of Pakistan(CJP).

The Special Parliamentary Committee includes Khawaja Asif, Ahsan Iqbal, Shaista Pervez Malik and Azam Nazir Tarar from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz(PML-N),  while Raja Pervez Ashraf, Naveed Qamar and Senator Farooq H. Naik from the Pakistan People Party (PPP) are part of the committee.

Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s Rana Ansar and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F)’s Kamran Murtaza have been included in the committee, while Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, Sahibzada Hamid Raza and Senator Ali Zafar have been included in the special parliamentary committee.

The meeting of the Special Parliamentary Committee set up for the appointment of the Chief Justice will be held today at 4 pm in the Parliament House, during which the committee will finalise one name for the new Chief Justice and send it to the Prime Minister.

The Chief Justice has to send the three names to the Parliamentary Committee by 12 midnight tonight as under the 26th Constitutional Amendment, the appointment of the new Chief Justice will be three days before the retirement of the current Chief Justice.

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