IHC declares chief justice sole ‘master of the roster’, recalls July 2025 order in Aafia Siddiqui case

ISLAMABAD: A larger bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) reaffirmed in a detailed judgement on Monday that the chief justice was the sole “master of the roster”, ruling that a July 2025 order by Justice Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan in the Aafia Siddiqui case was recalled for being issued by a forum that was not “lawfully constituted”. Last year in July, Justice Khan issued contempt notices to the prime minister and the entire federal cabinet over non-compliance with the court’s directions in a p...

By [email protected] (Malik Asad)