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Article: Pakistan's Supreme Court gets three more judges.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
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- December 10, 2007
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Pakistan's Supreme Court gets three more judges
Islamabad, Dec 10 (PTI) Three new judges of Pakistan's Supreme Court were today sworn in by Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar, raising its strength to 14.
President Pervez Musharraf yesterday appointed three high court judges to the Supreme Court. They are Justices Mian Hamid Farooq and Syed Sakhi Hussain Bokhari of the Lahore High Court and retired judge Syed Zawwar Hussain Jaffery of the Sindh High Court.
The government recently dropped a plan to cut the strength of the apex court from 17 to 12 after Dogar said a smaller bench would not be able to keep up with ...