Summary President Mamnoon Hussain has approved appointment of Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk has been appointed as 22nd Chief Justice of Pakistan.
Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani will retire on July 5. While Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk will take oath of his office on July 6 and will serve till Aug 6, 2015.
Mulk, a senior judge of the Peshawar High Court, belongs to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. He was born on August 17, 1950 in Swat, Pakistan and completed his degree of Bar-at-Law from Inner Temple London and was called to the Bar in 1977.
He currently serves as a Justice in the Supreme Court of Pakistan and was a part of the judges’ panel which conducted the proceedings of the contempt of court charges against former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani.
Justice Mulk was sworn in as the new acting Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of Pakistan last year in November, when outgoing CJP Jillani took oath as the country s top judge.
After Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Justice Saqib Nisar, Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa, Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Umar Ata Bandial would become the chief justices of Pakistan as per seniority rules and official record of the Supreme Court.
