The lower judiciary in Punjab, Pakistan’s largest province, faces a shortage of judges. The provincial high court has issued an order to address the shortfall.
According to which the tenure of all the existing judges has been extended by two years.
Earlier, the Lahore High Court (LHC) registrar wrote a letter to the Punjab chief secretary asking him to enhance the retirement age of the members of the district judiciary from 60 years to 63 years to meet the “acute shortage” of judicial officers in the province.
LHC Registrar Bahadar Ali Khan, who is also senior district and sessions judge, wrote in the letter that he has been directed [obviously by LHC Chief Justice Muhammad Qasim Khan] to ask the chief secretary to enhance the age of the officers of the district judiciary from 60 years to 62 years in order to overcome the shortage of the judicial officers.
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