Peshawar High Court ordered posting of various judicial officers

Chitral Times Report

PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court has posted Judicial Officers to the newly merged Districts of Khyber, Mohmand, Bajawar, Orakzai, Kurram, North Waziristan and South Waziristan. In an official press release, the Registrar of Peshawar High Court Khawaja Wajihud Din said that honorable the Chief Justice,Mr. Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth had directed to forthwith ensure that District Judiciary is to function in those newly merged Districts at the earliest. Acting on this directive, just recently a sizable promotions were made by the Administration Committee of this Court.

The following officers have been posted to the newly merged Districts earlier forming part of the erstwhile FATA: –

1. Shaukat Ahmad Khan, Additional District & Sessions Judge………..South Waziristan
2. IhteshamulHaqDanishmand, Additional District & Sessions Judge……Kurram
3. RashidullahKundi, Additional District & Sessions Judge……North Waziristan
4. Jamal Shah Mahsood, Additional District & Sessions Judge…..Orakzai
5. Shaukat Ali, Additional District & Sessions Judge….Orakzai
6. Wali Muhammad Khan, Additional District & Sessions Judge….Mohmand
7. MianZahidullah Jan, Additional District & Sessions Judge…..Bajour
8. Sultan Hussain, Additional District & Sessions Judge…..Kurram
9. QaziAttaullah, Additional District & Sessions Judge……Bajour
10. Mohib Jan, Additional District & Sessions Judge……….Mohmand
11. Asif Rashid, Additional District & Sessions Judge………Khyber
12. Fida Muhammad, Additional District & Sessions Judge…………South Waziristan
13. Muhammad Jameel, Additional District & Sessions Judge …. North Waziristan.
14. Jamal Shah Mehsood, Additional District & Sessions Judge… Orakzai

1. Zafarullah, Senior Civil Judge (Admn)…………..Khyber
2. Asadullah, Senior Civil Judge (Judicial)……..South Waziristan
3. Ubaidullah, Senior Civil Judge (Judicial)……Mohmand
4. Muhammad Ayaz, Senior Civil Judge……Orakzai
5. Abdul Hassan Mohmand, Senior Civil Judge…North Waziristan
6. Issa Khan, Senior Civil Judge…..Kurram
7. Iftikhar Ahmad, Senior Civil Judge…..Bajour

As per a policy statement these Officers shall have the place of sitting in the adjoining Districts till the time the Provincial Government provide requisite facilities at those Districts.

This makeshift arrangements shall be for a maximum period of 05 to 06 months and hopefully there would be swift transition to the newly merged districts. In the first leg, for each newly merged District, a District & Sessions Judge, 02 Additional District & Sessions Judge and 01 Senior Civil Judge have been posted. In due course Civil Judges cum Judicial Magistrates shall be transferred. A requisition has been sent to the Provincial Public Service Commission, KPK for recruitment of 24 Civil Judges cum Judicial Magistrates on urgent basis.

Theseposted officers have been directed to relinquish the charge of their present post with immediate affect and minimize the joining time so as to ensure that the vacuum situation prevailing at the NMDs ends at the earliest.

The Peshawar High Court in coordination with KP Judicial Academy is working on war footing to devise a training course for these judicial officers so as make them conversant with the peculiar customs and riwaj of these Districts.

Mr. Wajih-ud-Din further disclosed that there are 907 posts of the support staff of these Districts. The process of recruitment shall start immediately. As per Rules the recruitment of the support staff shall be carried out strictly on merit and from amongst the bona fide domiciled residents of these newly merged Districts. Peshawar High Court has also shared with the Provincial Government the budget estimates for the District Judiciary of these newly merged District and it is hoped that necessary fiscal support shall be carried out at the earliest.