Research · Islamabad High Court
IHC Bench Composition
Current sitting judges of the Islamabad High Court.
| # | Name | Designation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar | Chief Justice |
| 2 | Justice Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan | Senior Puisne Judge |
| 3 | Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir | Judge |
| 4 | Justice Khadim Hussain Soomro | Judge |
| 5 | Justice Muhammad Azam Khan | Judge |
| 6 | Justice Muhammad Asif Reki | Judge |
| 7 | Justice Inaam Ameen Minhas | Judge |
Bench assignments are administrative orders issued by the Chief Justice and change without advance notice. Court number assignments are not included here because they rotate frequently. Verify with the IHC Registrar for same-day accuracy.
Data Scope: The statistics below are computed from the reasoned written judgments the Islamabad High Court has published on its public Management Information System portal at mis.ihc.gov.pk. The corpus covers May 2008 to February 2026 and contains 2981 judgments.
These are not all matters the IHC handles. The Court disposes of approximately seven to nine thousand cases each year through procedural orders, adjournments, dismissals for non-prosecution, withdrawals, and short orders that are not authored as detailed written judgments. Only the reasoned judgments the Court has approved for its public portal are included here.
What you are looking at is the published precedent surface of the IHC, not its total caseload. It is the same set of materials any advocate would manually consult when researching a matter, aggregated.
Caseload Composition by Legal Division
Top Cited Statutes
Top Writ Respondents
Year-over-Year Judgment Volume
Of the judgments with identified authorship, 98.06% were authored by a single judge, 1.69% by a division bench, and 0.25% by a full or larger bench. The IHC's published precedent is overwhelmingly authored by single judges.
Methodology. Judgments captured from mis.ihc.gov.pk. Outcomes classified by pattern matching on the operative paragraph of each judgment. Statute names canonicalised across stylistic variants. Constitutional article and Pakistan Penal Code section frequencies extracted from the cited-statutes field of each judgment. Time-to-disposal computed as judgment year minus case-number filing year, a proxy that does not reflect docket-level filing dates. Years 2025 and 2026 reflect publishing lag and are excluded from trend statements. Corpus last refreshed May 25, 2026.