The Judicial Commission of Pakistan on Tuesday recommended names of three lawyers to be appointed as judges of the Islamabad High Court.

A meeting of the JCP headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed was held in the Supreme Court building.

IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah suggested names of Saman Raffat Imtiaz, Arbab Mohammad Tahir and Barrister Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan.

The members of the commission unanimously accepted the proposal and recommended the names for additional judges in the high court.

Imtiaz, who has been practicing law in Karachi since 2004, obtained her law degree from the University of Richmond, Virginia, USA, after completing her undergraduate in business administration from the American University in Dubai.

Tahir is currently working as the advocate general of Balochistan.

Khan did his BA Hons (Juris) from the University of Oxford. He then qualified as Barrister-at-Law from Lincoln’s Inn and enrolled as an advocate of the Lahore High Court in 1994. His father Sardar Ishaq Khan was a leading criminal law expert of the country.

The JCP will send these nominations to the Parliamentary Committee for Appointment of Judges. Under Article 175-A of the Constitution, the committee has been empowered to ratify the nominations of the JCP within a fortnight.

Quoting sources, the story said the JCP in its meeting scheduled for Dec 7 will consider the names of two additional judges — Justice Babar Sattar and Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri — for confirmation of their appointments as judges of the IHC.