ISLAMABAD, Oct 21 : After much hue and cry, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday signed the 26th constitutional amendment bill making it a law.
The bill had been sent to the president by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
The bill was earlier passed by a two-third majority in the two houses of parliament – Senate and National Assembly.
The Act will pave the way for three years of tenure for the Chief Justice of Pakistan.
A 12-member parliamentary committee will nominate the new Chief Justice from a panel of the three most senior judges.
The committee, comprising eight members from the National Assembly and four from the Senate, will propose the name to the Prime Minister, who will then forward it to the President for final approval.
Besides, a Judicial Commission of Pakistan, led by the Chief Justice and including three senior judges, two members each from the National Assembly and Senate, the Federal Minister for Law and Justice, the Attorney General, and a nominee of the Pakistan Bar Council, having not less than fifteen years of practice in the Supreme Court, will be responsible for appointments of the judges of the Supreme Court. (UNI)
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