PAKISTAN

 ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari setting aside the summary of Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Saturday appointed Chief Justice of Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Khwaja Sharif as Supreme Court’s judge, Geo News reported.

Meanwhile, Justice Saqib Nisar, the senior most judge of LHC, has been appointed Acting Chief Justice of LHC. It is for the first time in the history of Pakistan that a senior judge has been appointed as the acting chief justice.

Notifications of the above appointments have been issued.

However, the presidential spokesman has refused to confirm or reject the said appointments.

Earlier, there has been some tension between the government and the judiciary over the issue of elevating Justice Khwaja Sharif as SC judge.