Kashif Yousafzai
PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court (PHC) has posted Judicial Officers to the newly merged Districts of Khyber, Mohmand, Bajawar, Orakzai, Kurram, North Waziristan and South Waziristan.
In an official press release of the PHC on the Monday mentioned that, the Registrar of Peshawar High Court Khawaja Wajihud Din said that honorable the Chief Justice Mr. Waqar Ahmad Seth had directed to forthwith ensure that District Judiciary is to function in those newly merged Districts at the earliest. Acting on this directive, just recently sizable promotions were made by the Administration Committee of this Court.
They added that this makeshift arrangement shall be for a maximum period of five to six months and hopefully there would be swift transition to the newly merged districts. In the first leg, for each newly merged District, a District & Sessions Judge, two Additional District & Sessions Judge and one Senior Civil Judge have been posted. In due course Civil Judges cum Judicial Magistrates shall be transferred. A requisition has been sent to the Provincial Public Service Commission, KP for recruitment of 24 Civil Judges cum Judicial Magistrates on urgent basis.
These posted officers have been directed to relinquish the charge of their present post with immediate affect and minimize the joining time so as to ensure that the vacuum situation prevailing at the NMDs ends at the earliest.
The Peshawar High Court in coordination with KP Judicial Academy is working on war footing to devise a training course for these judicial officers so as make them conversant with the peculiar customs of these Districts.
Wajih-ud-Din further disclosed that there are 907 posts of the support staff of these Districts. The process of recruitment shall start immediately. As per Rules the recruitment of the support staff shall be carried out strictly on merit and from amongst the bona fide domiciled residents of these newly merged Districts.
Peshawar High Court has also shared with the Provincial Government the budget estimates for the District Judiciary of these newly merged District and it is hoped that necessary fiscal support shall be carried out at the earliest.
