The Administration Committee of the Lahore High Court has taken various decisions about promotions, appointments and disciplinary proceedings against judicial officers of provincial subordinate judiciary.
The meeting headed by Chief Justice Syed Zahid Hussain promoted 30 Senior Civil Judges to rank of Additional District & Sessions Judges (AD&SJ) including Malik Muhammad Iqbal, Khizar Hayat Gondal, Suleman Baig, Pervez Iqbal Sipra, Munir Ahmad, Ms Mahrukh Aziz, Aaqib Nazir, Abdul Razzaq, Muhammad Afzal Faheem, Shabbir Hussain, Shahid Islam, Khadim Hussain, Syed Faisal Raza Gillani, Abdur Raheem, Abid Rizwan Abid, Muhammad Iram Ayaz, Khalid Mehmood Bhatti, Amjad Iqbal Ranjha, Muhammad Akram Sheikh, Syed Awais Ashraf Gillani, Muhammad Iqbal Goraya, Syed Ali Abbas, Shahid Mehmood, Malik Shabbir Ahmad, Bedar Bakht, Haji Ahmad, Amjad Ali Shah, Ms Jazeela Aslam, Shakir Hassan and M. Javed-ul-Hassan Chishti.
The AC meeting also promoted 32 Civil Judges to the rank of Senior Civil Judges They are: Arshad Hussain, Fayyaz Ahmad Zaheer, Akhter Ali Shah Akhter, Zafar Yab Anwar, Muhammad Arif Rana, Ziaullah Khan, Zafar Iqbal Tarar, Qamar Sultan, Wajihuddin Tariq, Tariq Khurshid Khawaja, Aurangzeb, M. Abdul Rafiq, Anjum Mumtaz Malik, Safdar Iqbal, Rafqat Ali Gondal, Rana Zahid Iqbal, Javed Iqbal Sheikh, Muhammad Ijaz Butt, Muhammad Ashiq, Hussain Qadir, Syed Naveed Raza Bokhari, Hamid Hussain, Javed Iqbal Warraiach, Israr Zada, Zubair Shahzad Kiyani, Muhammad Kaleem Khan, M. Zafar Iqbal, Anjum Raza Syed, Shahzad Hussain, Muhammad Iqbal Khan, Sadiq AMsood Sabir, Ghulam Abbas. The committee appointed 18 lawyers as AD&SJ recommended by examine committee.
They include Bakht Fakhar Behzad, M. Akram, Waseem-ur-Rehman Khan Khakwani, M. Yar Gondal, Muhammad Hussain, Amjad Nazir Chaudhry, Muhammad Naveed Iqbal, Muhammad Asghar Khan, Muhammad Shabbir, Attiq-ur-Rehman, Syed Dawar Zafar Ali, Naseem Ahmad Virk, Nawaz Bhatti, Asad Ali, Tariq Mehmood Bajwah, Wajahat Hassan, Tariq Javed and Nasir Hussain.
The newly appointed civil judges include Qaiser Hussain, Naveed Abbas, Muhammad Zia ur Rehman, Saif ullah Babar Janjiana, Muhammad Abdul Sattar, Muhammad Zaigham, Ms Kalsoom ,Abdul Sattar, Amber Gull Khan, Muhammad Jamshed ,Muhammad Asim Sadique ,Muhammad Shahid Iqbal, Zaheer Ahmad ,Muhammad Azhar Qayyum , Adnan Anjum Gondal, Nasar Mehmood, Javaid Iqbal, Aneela Saeed ,Sahib Gull Khan Baloch, Zaira Manzoor Malik ,Muhammad Imran Khan, Muhammad Ajmal Khan ,Faiz UlIah,Ijaz Ahmad Mian, Mubarik Ali, Umar Draz Herl ,Muhammad Tayyab Ishaq ,Mohsin Ali ,Farooq Ahmad ,Ali Waqas Bukhari Syed, Sherbaz Khan , Zulfiqar Ahmad ,Shaukat Abbas ,Sajid Mehmood , Zaman All Ranjha ,Ghulam Mustafa ,Kashif Rasheed Khan Bangash ,Sardar Naveed Ahmad ,Kashif Iftikhar ,Muhammad Umer Farooq , Tariq Mehmood Kahut , Imran Yaqoob.
The new enlarged AC has also initiated disciplinary proceedings against four AD& SJ, one senior civil judge and four civil judges and dropped proceedings against three judicial officers.
The AD&SJ who are facing action include Muhammad Masroor Zaman, Mehboob Ahmed Khan, Muhammad Afzal Zahid, Mustafa Tanvir Sufwat, Bashir Ahmed(SCJ), Ali Raza, Mehar Muhammad Mazhar, Arshad Ali Tabassum and Nasir Javed Rana are civil judges. Those who have been exonerated are Malik Riaz Ahmad Khokhar(ASJ) and civil judges Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Sial and Rana Muhammad Ashfaq.
The AC had also expunged adverse remarks from the ACRs of 13 judicial officers. They include Chaudhry Nabi Ahmad (D&SJ), Muhammad Ashraf, Jamil Ahmad(both AD&SJ), Muhammad Iqbal Kalyar, Muhammad Nawaz Rai, Zafar Yab Anwar, Rana Muhammad Khan, Chaudhry Shabbir Hussain, Mustahsan Ahmad Minhas, Syed Nasir Ali Bukhari, Asif Nadeem Ashiq, Wajih-ud-Din Tariq and Muhammad Anwar Butt (all civil judges).
The AC has also appointed Justice Syed Shabbar Raza Rizvi to afford personal hearing to Muhammad Arif, D & SJ(OSD) after committee found his reply to show cause notice unsatisfactory while Chaudhry Jamil Ahmad who was reduced to the rank of senior civil judge has been restored as AD&SJ.