Pakistan’s Supreme Court grants temporary extension to army chief’s term

Pakistan’s top court granted a six-month extension to the term of the army head General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Thursday, after initially blocking a three-year extension of his tenure.

“We leave this matter to parliament to make law regarding this,” Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa said.

In a surprise ruling on Tuesday, the Supreme Court suspended the decision to extend, approved by the government in August, citing a series of irregularities, Reuters reports.

The court also ordered the government and the army to produce legal provisions and detailed arguments on the reasoning behind the move.