ISLAMABAD: Former Islamabad High Court (IHC) judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui was appointed as the chairman of the National Industrial Relations Commission on Monday.
The notification of Siddiqui’s appointment was issued after the approval of the federal cabinet. The former judge has been elected as the chairman for a period of three years.
The development comes a few months after President Asif Ali Zardari approved the issuance of a retirement notification to a former IHC judge in light of the Supreme Court’s verdict.
Siddiqui was removed from the post of IHC judge by former President Arif Alvi in October 2018 on the recommendation of the Supreme Judicial Council (SCJ).
However, in March this year, the Supreme Court declared Justice Siddiqui’s removal as illegal and directed that he can now be treated as a retired judge.
The decision was given by a five-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by the then Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa in a 23-page judgment.
The bench noted that the SJC took action against Justice Siddiqui on the assumption that the truth or falsity of the allegations made by the former judge was “irrelevant”.
