{"id":738605,"date":"2022-01-07T03:17:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T03:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/07\/commission-nominates-first-woman-to-pakistans-supreme-court\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T03:17:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T03:17:40","slug":"commission-nominates-first-woman-to-pakistans-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/07\/commission-nominates-first-woman-to-pakistans-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission nominates first woman to Pakistan’s Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jan. 6 (UPI) —<\/span> A Pakistani judicial commission on Thursday approved the nomination of Ayesha Malik to become the first woman to sit on the country’s Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

The Judicial Commission of Pakistan previously held a meeting in September to consider the nomination. It was unable to come to a consensus about whether to elevate Judge Ayesha Malik, who currently sits on Lahore’s High Court.\n<\/p>\n

The commission voted 5-4 in favor of her this time, Dawn News reported.<\/p>\n

Aliya Hamza Malik, a member of Parliament, called the vote “historic.”<\/p>\n

“It is a defining moment for women’s empowerment in the country.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, members of the Pakistan Bar Council and other bar associations threatened to boycott court proceedings in the country if the JCP didn’t postpone Thursday’s meeting to consider the nomination.<\/p>\n

Ayesha Malik’s nomination must now be considered by a parliamentary committee, which is expected to confirm her for a 10-year appointment to the high court, The New York Times reported.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jan. 6 (UPI) — A Pakistani judicial commission on Thursday approved the nomination of Ayesha Malik to become the first woman to sit on the country’s Supreme Court. The Judicial Commission of Pakistan previously held a meeting in September to consider the nomination. It was unable to come to a consensus about whether to elevate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":738606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}