PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council has expressed reservations over the transfer of judges to the Peshawar High Court from other high courts, demanding a reciprocal arrangement to ensure balance and provincial representation.
The concerns were raised during a meeting of the council’s executive committee, chaired by Executive Chairman Malik Imad Azam Advocate. The committee discussed various matters, with a particular focus on the issue of judicial transfers to the Peshawar High Court.
The council urged the Judicial Commission of Pakistan to ensure that if a judge was transferred to the Peshawar High Court from another high court, a judge from Peshawar should be appointed in exchange to another high court.
The meeting also called for the immediate appointment of judges from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the Islamabad High Court in accordance with the Constitution of Pakistan, so that the province’s representation was ensured.
The bar council warned that any violation of the Constitution would prompt the body to devise a strategy for a protest.
