| GEO Pakistan | | SC resumes judges case hearing | Updated at: 0918 PST, Thursday, July 30, 2009
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court of Pakistan resumed the hearing of the case regarding the appointment of ad hoc judges in Sindh High Court.
The bench is also mulling over the extra-constitutional steps of imposing emergency rule and dismissing more than 60 judges of the apex courts by then President General (r) Pervez Musharraf on November 3, 2007.
Hamid Khan advocate who started his arguments yesterday has been asked to complete his statement by 11 a.m. today. The bench also started the hearing of the case an hour before the scheduled time of courts’ opening.
The court had also issued a notice to former president to present his stance, either by himself or by his counsel, before the 14-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry for July 29. However, no counsel of the former president was present in the court room on Wednesday.
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