Jazeela Aslam appointed Registrar SC

ISLAMABAD: The Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) has appointed Ms Jazeela Aslam as Registrar Supreme Court (SC).

Likewise, Dr Muhammad Mushtaq Ahmed has been appointed as secretary to the CJP while Abdul Sadiq is appointed as staff officer, said a press release issued here on Sunday.

It said that before her appointment as Registrar SC, Jazeela Aslam was serving as the district and sessions judge Okara, and also served Kasur and Sialkot in the same capacity.

She is the senior most female district and sessions judge in Punjab.

The press release said that Jazeela Aslam joined the judicial service as civil judge and judicial magistrate in 1994. She has also served as deputy solicitor and as an instructor at the Federal Judicial Academy, besides serving as director academic in the Punjab Judicial Academy.

Similarly, prior to her appointment, Dr Mushtaq Ahmed was holding the position of professor and chairman of the Department of Shariah and Law in Shifa Tameer-e-Milat University, where he helped to set up the Law Department. He has written 11 books and 50 research papers on criminal law, international humanitarian law, human rights law, Islamic Law, jurisprudence, Quranic studies and comparative religion. He has assisted SC as amicus curiae and Federal Shariat Court as the jurist consult in several cases.

Abdul Sadiq was serving as security officer at the Balochistan High Court before his appointment as staff officer to the CJP. He has been sent on deputation in the present Chief Justice’s tenure.