Justice Sardar Tariq Masood and Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah — both Supreme Court judges — have urged Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial to call a meeting of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) for the appointment of judges on the five vacant SC seats and 'avoid unwanted rumours of petty politics and lobbying', it emerged on Saturday. In a letter dated October 7, they explained that a JCP meeting should 'automatically be scheduled' at the earliest in case of any vacancy in the apex court to fulfil the constitutional obligation under Article 175A(8) of the Constitution that states: 'The commission by majority of its total membership shall nominate to the Parliamentary Committee one person, for each vacancy of a Judge in the Supreme Court, a High Court or the Federal Shariat Court, as the case may be.

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