Federal Law Minister Azam Nazir Tarar says that the Constitution allows the appointment of ad hoc judges, in my opinion, ad hoc judges should be appointed and commented news about the extension of the tenure of Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa was not true.

In an interview to a private television, Law Minister Tarar said that ad hoc judges would be appointed by the Judicial Commission and not by the CJP himself.

Tarar said he was in favour of the constitutional amendment to reform the judicial system.

Azam Nazir Tarar said that the news about the extension of the tenure of Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa was not true. The minister revealed he held a meeting with the CJP regarding the meeting of the Judicial Commission in late April or early May.

“The issue of extension was also discussed, Chief Justice said that he is not interested in extension of tenure,” he said.

“Justice Mansoor Ali Shah agreed the proposal to extend the tenure of the Chief Justice. Justice Mansoor said that Parliament has the authority to extend the tenure of the CJP.”

The law minister said that the reason for the high pension bill was the debate on extending the tenure of government employees, the retirement age of government employees worldwide has increased as paying huge amounts of money to the government in the form of pensions.

“The proposal to extend the tenure of all government employees, including the judiciary, was under consideration and Parliament has the power to amend the constitution,” he said.

Azam Nazir Tarar said that party has been given an opportunity to strengthen by the recent decision of the Supreme Court as 8 judges rewrote the Constitution in the case of reserved seats.

Article 6 on PTI

On the issue of imposition of Article 6 on PTI leaders, the Law Minister said that PTI was not calling a meeting on no-confidence motion, the court was approached to convene a meeting on PTI leaders and there should Article 6 should be imposed on PTI leaders.

“The issue of imposition could be brought up in the Parliament. PTI violated the constitution by dissolving the assemblies in the presence of no-confidence motion, there is a genuine case of Article 6 on the leaders of Tehreek-e-Insaf.

The federal law minister further said that the court also said that Tehreek-e-Insaf took an unconstitutional step by dissolving the assemblies, there may be a debate in the parliament regarding Article 6 the decision not to ban PTI last year was to maintain political environment.