Justice Saqib Nisar to be next CJP

Author: Online

ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain on Wednesday formally gave approval to the appointment of Supreme Court (SC) senior judge Justice Mian Saqib Nisar as the next chief justice of Pakistan (CJP).

The Law Ministry has issued a notification in this regard, according to which Justice Nisar will take charge as the CJP on December 31.

Justice Nisar will replace Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, who is set to retire on December 30. In April this year, the senior SC judge took oath as the acting CJP on the account of Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali’s seven-day official visit to Turkey.

Justice Nisar was born in January 1954 in Lahore and passed his matriculation from Cathedral High School, Lahore. He completed his bachelor of law from the University of Punjab in 1980 and joined the legal profession as an advocate in May 1980.

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