ISLAMABAD: Sept 16: Senior most justice Faez Isa on Sunday took oath as chief justice of Pakistan . Faez Isa ,who was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Count in 2014, is Pakistan’s 29th chief justice.
President Dr Arif Alvi administrated the oath from the new chief justice at presidency here. Faez Isa’s wife Sareena Isa was also present at the oath-taking ceremony . Faez Essa hails from Balochistan .
He is known for giving anti establishment decisions in his career as a judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He heard a famous case of PCO judges and ordered to remove all those judges who had taken oath under PCO introduced by former president and army chief, Pervez Musharraf .
Faez Isa was also head of SCP bench which heard the case of Faizabad sit-in held in 2017. The bench had ordered then army chief , Qamar Javed Bajwa, to take action against his subordinate army officers who negotiated with the protesters at Faizabad sit- in.
As a judge of SCP , Faez Isa had divergent views with almost all chief justices of Pakistan . He expressed his differences with the chief justices in opposing notes in a number of decisions of SCP. During PTI rule , Faez Isa faced a presidential reference filed with the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) for concealing his foreign assets. A 10-member SCP bench, headed by former chief justice , Umar Atta Bandial , had ordered SJC to stop proceeding in the presidential reference filed against Faez Isa. Faez Isa will be top judge of Pakistan for around one and half years.
The legal fraternity has great respect for Faez Isa. It expects revival of SCP ‘s authority and honour during Faez Isa’s tenure as a chief justice of Pakistan. Umar Atta Bandial’s decisions in the last one year had been mostly controversial . It damaged SCP as an institution and overall judicial system of Pakistan.
In a short span of one and half years, Faez Isa will have to face a number of challenges as a chief justice of Pakistan. The first and foremost challenge for him is to order the Election Commission to hold elections in the country within the limit of the constitution.
