Decision on making Iftikhar Chaudhry As Chief Justice Of Pakistan once he comes back

Friday, September 5, 2008 at 7:31 pm

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Law, Farooq H. Naek Friday said that Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar had taken oath as the Chief Justice of Pakistan and he is the present CJ of the country.

“The decision regarding appointment of Iftikhar Chaudhry as the Chief Justice will be taken once he comes back,” the Law Minister said while talking to media here outside the Supreme Court.ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Law, Farooq H. Naek Friday said the Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar had taken oath as the Chief Justice of Pakistan and he is the present CJ of the country.

“The decision regarding appointment of Iftikhar Chaudhry as the Chief Justice will be taken once he comes back,” the Law Minister said while talking to media here outside the Supreme Court.

“There can be one Chief Justice at a time,” he pointed out adding “if Iftikhar Chaudhry also takes oath in the present circumstances it will lead to another Constitutional crisis”.

Farooq Naek said we told the lawyers’ community that the issue cannot not be resolved by staging sit-ins and invited them to discuss the matter.

“Those deposed judges who are interested in taking oath should contact us,” he said.

He said our point of view was that the restoration of judges through executive order would not be a right way to resolve this issue.

“We are not creating hurdles in the reinstatement of deposed judges and restoring the judges after the resignation of former president Musharraf,” the Law Minister maintained.

He said Nawaz League is invited to come back into the fold of ruling coalition which, he said, decided to break up on the judges issue.