Canada Global (Web News) The federal cabinet has approved the inquiry commission on the allegations of the judges of the high court. According to the sources, Justice (R) Tasadeq Jilani has been appointed as the head of the inquiry commission, the sources of the federal cabinet say. It is said that the Attorney General was specially invited to the Cabinet meeting and his legal opinion was sought on the matter.
Justice (Rtd) Tasadeq Jilani has also been formally contacted and the legal team has also been told that the Cabinet has agreed on the name of the former Chief Justice and the Cabinet has given him the full mandate of the investigation. They can take the help of the organization as needed. Sources in the federal cabinet say that the government legal team has been directed to inform the Chief Justice of Pakistan about the decision taken by the cabinet in this regard. According to the sources, the Cabinet has also decided on the TOR of the Inquiry Commission, which will be officially announced in a press release.
Justice (retired) Tasadeq Jilani, head of the inquiry commission, said that the matter is of a sensitive nature, it will be investigated in a clear and transparent manner, it is a big challenge, the expectations of the nation will be fulfilled. It should be clear that a few days ago Six judges of the Islamabad High Court had written a letter to the Chief Justice of Pakistan in which the judges had expressed reservations and interference in judicial matters. MA in Political Science from C College, followed by LLB from Punjab University in 1974. I started my practice as a lawyer in Multan, South Punjab.
In 1979 during the Zia-ul-Haq era, he was appointed Assistant Advocate General of Punjab, in 1988 he was appointed Additional Advocate General of Punjab, in 1993 he was promoted to the post of Advocate General of Punjab. On August 7, 1994, he was appointed a judge of the Lahore High Court and almost 10 years later, in July 2004, he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court.
Justice (retd) Tasadeq Jilani was part of the 7-judge bench which issued an emergency order on November 3, 2007 that no High Court judge should take oath under the PCO and no order of bureaucratic military dictator should be given to him. was sworn in as the Chief Justice of Pakistan on 12 December 2013 after the retirement of Justice Retired Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary, he served as the Chief Justice of Pakistan for about 7 months and retired on 5 July 2014.