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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
Pakistan has confirmed the appointment of the first female Supreme Court judge in the Muslim-majority nation’s history, members of the ruling party said on Thursday. A commission that decides on the promotion of judges on Thursday voted to make 55-year-old Justice Ayesha Malik the first female judge on the Supreme Court in the 75 years since the South Asian country’s independence. “An important & defining moment in our country as a brilliant lawyer & decorated judge has become Pakistan’s first female SC judge,” a legislator of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf and parliamentary secretary fo…