LAHORE: Lahore Extreme Courtroom Chief Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah has directed district and lessons judges of Punjab to furnish report of dual nationality holder judicial officers, if any, working beneath their space.
A directive issued to the lessons judges instructed them to submit the required information inside three days for onward transmission to the Supreme Courtroom.
“In case, on scrutiny anyone is found to have twin nationality the realized district and lessons determine along with the talked about judicial officer will face the outcomes entailing disciplinary movement in opposition to them,” it gives.
A Three-judge bench of the Supreme Courtroom headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar had on Jan 17 sought a listing of judges and civil servants holding twin nationalities. The chief justice had taken suo motu all through listening to a petition in opposition to civil servants from grade 17 to 21 having twin nationalities.
The bench had directed registrars of all the extreme courts to submit a listing of dual nationwide superior and reduce judiciary judges.
The construction does not put any bar on judges to hold twin nationality nevertheless there was a requirement to moreover convey the judges beneath the restriction given that apex courtroom disqualified fairly a couple of parliamentarians for possessing twin nationality.
Revealed in Dawn, January 27th, 2018