The Supreme Court (SC) notified Sessions Judge Okara Jazeela Aslam as the first female registrar of the Supreme Court (SC).
The notification also read that the Lahore High Court (LHC) had handed over the services of Jazeela to the SC.
Hitherto, Additional and Sessions Judge Abdur Razzaq was working as the registrar of the apex court. His services had been returned to the LHC a week ago.
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Jazeela Aslam joined the judicial service as a 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 of Academics at the Punjab Judicial Academy.
Moreover, Dr. Muhammad Mushtaq Ahmed has been appointed as Secretary to the CJP while Abdul Saqib has been appointed as staff officer, according to a press release issued here on Sunday.
Dr Mushtaq Ahmed held the position of Professor and Chairman of the Department of Shariah and Law at Shifa Tameer e Milat University, where he helped to set up the Law Department.
He has written eleven books and fifty research papers on criminal law, international humanitarian law, human rights law, Islamic Law, jurisprudence, Qur’anic studies, and comparative religion.
He has assisted SC as amicus curiae and Federal Shariat Court as the jurist consult in several cases.
Abdul Saqib was serving as a Security Officer in the Balochistan High Court before his appointment as staff officer to the CJP.
