Senior advocate Akhtar Hussain, Pakistan Bar Council representative in the Judicial Commission of Pakistan, has written to Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial requesting the amendment of JCP rules and calling for 'objective, transparent and measurable processes' to nominate and appoint judges. In a four-page letter dated August 4, Hussain requested that the commission's Rule Making Committee should be activated under the chairmanship of the senior puisne judge (Qazi Faez Isa) with a 'clear mandate to solicit the views of all stakeholders and thereafter devise draft Rules and Criteria for Appointments' within four weeks.

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