PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court on Friday ordered transfer and posting of 42 judicial officers including nine district and sessions judges and 16 additional district and sessions judges.

Four separate notifications were issued by the PHC’s Registrar Inamullah Mehsud about transfer of district and additional district and sessions judges, eight senior civil judges and nine civil judges.

A district judge posted as special judge (provincial) anti-corruption Babar Ali Khan has been posted in the high court as officer on special duty upon completion of his deputation period.

Another district judge, Salahuddin Khan, was transferred from the post of member (judicial) KP Services Tribunal to the PHC for his onward posting as special judge (provincial) anti-corruption.

Peshawar district and session judge (DSJ) Ashfaque Taj has been transferred to Swabi, whereas he will be replaced by the registrar Inamullah Wazir.

A female DSJ Sadia Arshad serving as judge consumer court Abbottabad has been transferred and posted at Mansehra as DSJ.

Other transferred DSJs include: additional registrar PHC DI Khan Bench, Ghulam Abbas, transferred to PHC for onward posting as judge consumer court Abbottabad; Mansehra DSJ Ziaur Rehman posted as additional registrar PHC DI Khan bench; judge consumer court Chitral Lower, Tanveer Iqbal, posted at consumer court Mardan; and Adil Majeed Khan, transferred from post of director regulation secretariat district judiciary to post of director human rights wing in the secretariat.

The transferred additional district and sessions judges include: Rashidullah Kundi (from Malakand to Mardan), Kashif Dilawar (from Battagram to Nowshera), Javeria Sartaj (from Swabi to Buner), Zaeem Ahmad (from director human resource wing to Swabi, Fida Mohammad (Mardan to Swat), Aman Ullah Khan (Haripur to Battagram), Tilla Mohammad (Dargai to Peshawar), Tariq Abbas (Banda Daud Shah to Dargai), Mohammad Iqbal (Abbottabad to Chitral Lower), Mohammad Asif (Nowshera to Bajaur), Qaiser Khan Afridi (Buner to Banda Daud Shah), Ihsanul Haq (Bajaur to Abbottabad), Mohammad Sher Ali Khan (Peshawar to Karak), Shaukat Ali (Chitral Lower to Malakand), Ms Imrana Shaheen (Swat to Haripur) and Ms Quratul Ain Chand Irfan (Karak to Peshawar).

The transferred senior civil judges are: Mohammad Irfan (from Swabi to Battagram), Mohammad Jamil Khan (Swat to Swabi), Nadeem Akhter (Bajaur to Malakand), Syed Mansoor Shah Bukhari (Malakand to KP Judicial Academy as research and publication officer), Imranullah (from PHC to Peshawar), Ms Sidra Azmat (Battagram to Nowshera), Muhibur Rehman (Peshawar to Bajaur) and Ms Faiza Gul (Nowshera to Swat).

Moreover, the transferred civil judges include: Aziz Ahmad (from Lakki Marwat to Razar Swabi), Habibur Rehman Orakzai (KP Judicial Academy to Swabi), Inamullah (DI Khan to North Waziristan at Bannu), Hamid Sajjad (Peshawar to Kohistan Upper), Inamullah (North Waziristan to Bannu), Imtiazullah Khan (Kohistan Upper to Haripur), Ms Maryam Sheharyar (Haripur to Peshawar), Asim Khan (Swabi to Swat) and Fasihur Rehman (Swat to North Waziristan at Bannu).

Published in Dawn, April 6th, 2024