Javaid Iqbal
جاوید اقبال
Chief Justice of Pakistan
Acting
In office
9 March 2007 – 24 March 2007
Appointed by Pervez Musharraf
Preceded by Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry
Succeeded by Rana Bhagwandas (Acting)
Chief Justice of the Balochistan High Court
In office
4 February 2000 – 27 April 2000
Appointed by Amir-ul-Mulk Mengal
Preceded by Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry
Succeeded by Raja Muhammad Fayyaz Ahmad
Personal details
Born (1946-07-31) 31 July 1946
Quetta, British Raj
(now Pakistan)
Alma mater Government College, Quetta
University of the Punjab
Javed Iqbal (Urdu: جاوید اقبال) is a justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and a former Chief Justice of the Balochistan High Court.
Education
Iqbal graduated with a Masters of Arts degree in Political Science in 1969 and LL.B from University of the Punjab in 1968. He also has a Master of International Law (gained in Australia[vague]). He qualified in Islamic Fiqh and Shariah from the International Islamic University, Islamabad.
Professional career
Iqbal was appointed as Member, National Industrial Relations Commission in 1988. He was Elevated as Additional Judge, Balochistan High Court in 1993 and was confirmed in 1995.
Following the coup d'état by General Pervez Musharraf, Iqbal retook his oath as a judge under the Provisional Constitutional Order of 1999. He was appointed as Chief Justice, High Court of Balochistan on 4 February 2000.
Iqbal was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on 28 April 2000.
When the presidential reference against Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was filed on 9 March 2007, Iqbal served as acting Chief Justice of Pakistan from 9 March 2007 till 23 March 2007.
Iqbal refused to take oath on Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) on 3 November 2007. As the result he was removed from the Supreme Court along with eleven other judges.
Later he was appointed to the position of chairman of the Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) for three years on 11 November 2007. He announced on 12 April 2008 that he had resigned from that position. On 17 March 2009 as the result of the lawyer and civil society movement for restoration of judiciary, Justice Iqbal was restored to the position of 2 November 2007 on the bench of supreme court
Controversies
Iqbal is one of the judges who took oath under PCO in 1999 as a Justice of High Court of Balochistan.
Important cases
On 13 April 2005, a bench headed by, then Chief Justice Nazim Hussain Siddiqui, with other members of bench being Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Javed Iqbal, Abdul Hameed Dogar and Faqir Muhammad Khokhar, unanimously dismissed all petitions challenging the 17th Constitutional Amendment and the dual office of General Pervez Musharraf as the President as well as the Chief of Army Staff. However, a decision in a case relating to the retirement age of the superior court judges was withheld.
On 28 September 2007, Javed Iqbal along with Abdul Hameed Dogar, M. Javed Buttar, Mohammad Nawaz Abbasi, Faqir Muhammad Khokhar, and Falak Sher formed a majority opinion in holding that petition challenging General Pervez Musharraf candidature for the second term as the president as non maintainable. Head of the bench Rana Bhagwandas, with two other members Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan and Mian Shakirullah Jan dissented.
On 3 November 2007, Iqbal was the member of seven-panel bench headed by Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry which unanimously declared the 2007 Pakistani state of emergency as illegal and passed an order restraining all judges of Supreme Court and High Courts from taking oath under Provisional Constitutional Order. The other members of the bench were Rana Bhagwandas, Mian Shakirullah Jan, Nasir-ul-Mulk, Raja Muhammad Fayyaz Ahmad, and Ghulam Rabbani.
References
- ^ a b Supreme Court Report Golden Jubilee Edition 2006
- ^ "Justice Javed Iqbal sworn in as Acting chief justice of Pakistan". Pak Tribune. 10 March 2007. Retrieved 2009-04-08.
- ^ "Majority of Pak judges refuse to take oath under new PCO". Thaindian News. 14 November 2007. Retrieved 2009-04-08.
- ^ "Iqbal to be Chairman of Press Council of Pakistan". Indopia. 15 November 2007. Retrieved 2009-04-08.
- ^ News Network International (15 November 2007). "Justice Javed Iqbal resigns as PPC head". Business Recorder, Pakistan. Retrieved 2009-04-08.
- ^ News Network International (17 March 2009). "Notification for judges restoration issued". thecurrentaffairs.com. Retrieved 2009-04-08. [dead link]
- ^ Nasir Iqbal (14 April 2005). "Petitions dismissed by Supreme Court: 17th Amendment, dual office". DAWN (Pakistan). Retrieved 2009-04-03. [dead link]
- ^ Nasir Iqbal (14 April, 2005). "Petitions against Pervez's dual office dismissed". The Tribune (India). Retrieved 2009-04-03.
- ^ a b Nasir Iqbal (29 September 2007). "The day of the General: -Musharraf to run for president in uniform - Petitioners, lawyers leaders livid". DAWN (Pakistan). Retrieved 2009-04-03. [dead link]
- Profile from the BBC Urdu service
- BBC News about the arrest of Chief Justice Chaudhry
- Movement for Rule of Law - Profiles - Justice Javed Iqbal
Preceded by
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Chief Justice of the Balochistan High Court
2000 Succeeded by
Raja Muhammad Fayyaz Ahmad
Chief Justice of Pakistan
Acting
2007 Succeeded by
Rana Bhagwandas
Acting
Persondata
Name Iqbal, Javaid
Alternative names
Short description Chief Justice of Pakistan
Date of birth 31 July 1946
Place of birth Pakistan
Date of death
Place of death