Islamabad: Supreme Court’s Registrar’s Office raised administrative objections on Monday petition The five current judges from the Islamabad High Court (IHC) were submitted to the Supreme Court respectively.
Justices Mohsin Aktar Kayani, Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, Babar Sattar, Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan and Saman Raffat Imtiaz appeared in person on the Supreme Court last Friday to file a constitutional petition challenging executive power justice.
In the objection, the petitioner invoked the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court under Article 184(3) of the Constitution on the Implementation of Fundamental Rights, but the complaints filed are of personal nature and therefore cannot be maintained in view of the 1998 Zulfiqar Mehdi case.
In this judgment, SC possesses the hero and believes that Article 184 (3) cannot compensate for personal grief.
By the way, the SC registrar mentioned the same case law when returning to Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar’s petition and sought a challenge hearing on the 26th Amendment on the same day. Sources said the Registered Office further observed that the issue of petitioners failing to prove the “public importance” of the enforcement of fundamental rights is a precedent invoking Article 184(3).
It added that notices sent to respondents – IHC Chief Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar, the Registrar of the High Court and the Federal Government through the Lawyers Minister were not properly promoted because they failed to designate the petition.
The judges sought to declare in their petition that the executive power of the Chief Justice of the IHC cannot be exercised in a way that undermines judicial power. They argued that once a matter was seized, the IHC CJ did not authorize the transfer of the case or rebuild the bench, nor did they exclude available judges from the lineup.
The defense further argues that only the Constitution, the transfer and issuance list of cases can be carried out under Article 192(1) and Article 202 of the Constitution, and that the SC has put aside the “roster” doctrine in its 2024 Jude Procedure case.
They also formed the IHC Administrative Committee through the issue of notification on February 3 and July 15 this year, took it away Mala Fide, Illegal and Coram Non Judice, and asked the Apex court to declare such notification invalid.
Posted in Dawn on September 23, 2025
