Constitutional Reforms Committee meeting will discuss SC's verdict on the 18th amendment.
ISLAMABAD:?Senator Raza Rabbani is chairing a meeting of the parliamentary committee for constitutional reforms at the Parliament House today (Monday) to tackle and seek a solution to the long standing 18th amendment issue.
As reported in The Express Tribune, the committee will review a Supreme Court interim order that asks parliament to?reconsider an amendment it made in?Article 175-(A)?that deals with the procedures for appointing superior court judges.
Raza Rabbani, the committee’s head, once again faces the daunting challenge of bringing political groupings with divergent views together with political outfits expressing fears that a consensus would probably be difficult to reach.
On October 22, the Supreme Court sent Article175-(A) of the Constitution back to parliament with certain recommendations to amend it again.
When the case was being heard by the court the government representatives defended the 18th amendment and argued that parliament has the supreme right to amend the constitution and that no institution could undo it. It is likely that some parties represented in the committee will continue with this stance.
“I believe that it is the sole prerogative of the parliament to amend the constitution,” said Haji Adeel who represents the ANP in the constitutional reforms committee. He said that the 18th amendment was passed by parliament through a consensus.
In its interim order, the Supreme Court wrote that Article 175-A should be amended in a manner that “in all cases of an anticipated or actual vacancy a meeting of the Judicial Commission shall be convened by the Chief Justice of Pakistan in his capacity as its chairman and the names of candidates for appointment to the Supreme Court shall be initiated by him, of the Federal Shariat Court by the Chief Justice of the said court and of the high courts by the respective chief justices”.
The Supreme Court on Sunday said that the appointment of judges?in the superior judiciary will be made on the recommendations of the?judicial commission as mentioned in the 18th constitutional amendment.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, also the chairman of the Judicial Commission, on Saturday,?summoned the first meeting of the commission on November 6.
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