Islamabad: Marking a historic point in country’s judicial and constitutional history, Justice Aminuddin Khan on Friday was sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the newly formed Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) under the 27th Constitutional Amendment.

President Asif Ali Zardari administered the oath to Justice Aminuddin Khan at the President House on Friday, a day after he approved his appointment to the key post on the advice of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Yahya Khan Afridi, Chairman Senate Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani, Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar, Chairman Pakistan People’s Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Deputy Speaker National Assembly Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Naveed Ashraf, Attorney General of Pakistan Mansoor Usman Awan, First Lady Assefa Bhutto Zardari, Supreme Court judges Justice Syed Hassan Rizvi, Justice Aamer Farooq, Justice Ali Baqar Najafi, Chief Justice Lahore High Court Ms Aliya Neelum, Chief Justice Islamabad High Court Justice Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar, Federal Ministers Ahsan Iqbal, Muhammad Aurangzeb, Azam Nazeer Tarar, Attauallah Tarar, Jam Kamal Khan, Advisor to PM Rana Sanaullah Khan, Advocate General Punjab Muhammad Amjad Parvez and foreig
n dignitaries attended the oath taking ceremony.

The president made the appointment under clause (3) of Article 175-A, read with Article 175-C of the Constitution. It added that it would come into effect from the date that Justice Aminuddin took his oath.

Justice Aminuddin Khan, whose legal practice started around four decades back, was previously serving as the head of the now-dissolved constitutional bench, which was formed as a result of the 26th Constitutional Amendment last year.