Overview

• Five Islamabad High Court judges had asked the Supreme Court to curb IHC Chief Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar’s administrative powers, but their Article 184(3) petitions were sent back on admissibility grounds.
• The registrar cited failure to show public-importance questions or specified fundamental-rights violations and referenced the Zulfiqar Mehdi v PIA precedent against using this jurisdiction for personal grievances.
• The judges’ petitions sought to void IHC administrative notifications of Feb 3 and Jul 15, undo new Practice and Procedure rules, and overturn the order restraining Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri from judicial work.
• In a separate move, former senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar’s request for a full court to hear challenges to the 26th Constitutional Amendment was returned for lacking a public-importance basis and for making multiple prayers.
• Khokhar said he will appeal, as tensions persist over a Sept 16 IHC division-bench order halting Justice Jahangiri’s duties pending a quo warranto inquiry into his law degree.