The Lahore High Court chief justice has set up eight divisional and 20 single benches to deal with a string of pending cases next week beginning on December 17.
A court notification said justices Syed Zahid Hussain, Mian Muhammad Najam-uz-Zaman, Maulvi Anwar-ul-Haq, Sardar Muhammad Aslam, Muhammad Bilal Khan, Fazal-e-Miran Chauhan, Shabar Raza Rizvi and Tariq Shamim will head the division benches.
The single benches will be made up of Chief Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry, justices Syed Zahid Hussain, Mian Muhammad Najum-uz-Zaman, Maulvi Anwar-ur-Haq, Nasim Sikandar, Muhammad Muzammal Khan, Sardar Muhammad Aslam, Muhammad Bilal Khan, Sheikh Javaid Sarfraz, Fazal-e-Miran Chuhan, Syed Shabbar Raza Rizvi, Tariq Shamim, Syed Asghar Haider, Hasnat Ahmad Khan, Zubda-tul-Hassan, Zafar Iqbal Chaudhry, S Ali Hassan Rizvi, Khawaja Farooq Saeed, Muhammad Akram Qureshi and Khurshid Anwar Bhinder.