CJ constitutes five benches of SC for next week
By Khalid Amin

ISLAMABAD—Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar on Friday constituted five benches of the Supreme Court including Shariat Appellate bench for next week starting from January 07 (Monday) for the hearing of hundreds of cases at Islamabad.
According to the cause list issued by the fixture department of the Supreme Court for next week, benches comprising Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar, Justice Mohammad Moosa K. Leghari and Justice Chaudhry Ijaz Yousuf (Bench-I), Justice Muhammad Nawaz Abbasi, Justice Muhammad Qaim Jan Khan and Justice Syed Zawwar Hussain Jaffery (Bench-II), Justice Faqir Muhammad Khokhar, Justice Muhammad Akhtar Shabbir and Syed Sakhi Hussain Bukhari (Bench-III), Justice M. Javed Buttar, Justice Saiyed Saeed Ashhad, Justice Zia Pervez, Justice Dr. Allama Khalid Mahmood and Justice Dr. Rashid Ahmed Jullundhari (Bench-IV “Shariat Appellate Bench”) and Justice Ijaz-ul-Hassan and Justice Mian Hamid Farooq (Bench-V) will hear hundreds of cases at Islamabad.
On the directive of the Acting Chief Justice, the fixture department has already mentioned on the top of cause list that “No application for adjournment through fax will be placed before the court. If the counsel is unable to appear for any reason the Advocate-on-Record will be required to argue the case.” Agencies Add: Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr. Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar will chair the 30th meeting of Board of Governors of the FJA here in the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Islamabad, at 11. am today (Saturday).
A host of administrative, fiscal, continuing judicial educational improvement, capacity building, in particular, converting the FJA into the Centre of Excellence, and other items, both on the agenda, and also as desired by the Honorable Chief Justice of Pakistan who is also the chairman Board of Governors of the Federal Judicial Academy ( FJA), Islamabad, will be considered during the meeting. The composition of the FJA BoG includes: Federal Minister for Law, Justice and Human Rights as Vice Chairman, Chief Justices of four provinces, Attorney General for Pakistan, Federal Secretary for Law, Justice and Human Rights as members said spokesman of the FJA Hashim Abro.