{"id":135,"date":"2013-11-27T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/2013\/11\/27\/justice-tassaduq-jillani-will-be-new-chief-justice-of-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2013-11-27T13:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T13:06:00","slug":"justice-tassaduq-jillani-will-be-new-chief-justice-of-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/lawyersmovement\/justice-tassaduq-jillani-will-be-new-chief-justice-of-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Tassaduq Jillani will be new Chief Justice of Pakistan."},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Ai6RceLGdHQ\/UpXuOMQgGGI\/AAAAAAAABGc\/-gACzplXTrA\/s1600\/20121224114042.JPG\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  border=\"0\"  height=\"212\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  width=\"320\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Ai6RceLGdHQ\/UpXuOMQgGGI\/AAAAAAAABGc\/-gACzplXTrA\/s320\/20121224114042.JPG\" ><\/a><\/div>\n<p>ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani to be appointed the next Chief Justice of Pakistan, The current Chief Justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is set to retire from his post on December 12.<br \/>Tassaduq Hussain Jillani \u2013 nicknamed \u201cthe gentleman judge\u201d for his mild manner \u2013 is expected to maintain the court\u2019s focus on rights but steer clear of intervening in government policy.<br \/>Currently, Justice Jillani also occupies the post of Chief Election Commissioner besides being the senior most judge.<br \/>\u201cHe is the opposite of the current chief justice,\u201d retired Supreme Court judge Nasir Aslam Zahid had said.<br \/>\u201cHe\u2019s very mild, he hears all sides, he does not lose his temper.\u201d<br \/>A dapper lover of poetry, antiques and films, Jillani is related to the new ambassador to the United States Jalil Abbas Jilani and a former prime minister who Chaudhry forced to step down last year.<br \/>He has largely avoided the high-profile political cases that Chaudhry has revelled in and he has called for judicial vigilance to be tempered with restraint.<br \/>\u201cIf the courts fail to maintain this delicate balance, none else but people\u2019s confidence in the judiciary would be the worst victim,\u201d Jillani wrote in a recent ruling.<br \/>Express News correspondent Aamir Ilyas Rana reported that the official notification on Justice Jillani\u2019s appointment may be passed later today.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-lawyersmovement","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}