It argued that the Constitution assigns the president only a limited role in the judicial appointments process. The petition further argued that the president's continued failure to act constitutes a failure to perform "a mandatory public and constitutional duty". In its meetings on July 20 and 21, the Judicial Commission had recommended the appointment of three additional judges to the Islamabad High Court, 10 to the Lahore High Court, three to the Sindh High Court and three to the Balochistan High Court. It had also recommended the confirmation of four additional judges of the Peshawar High Court and a six-month extension in the tenure of Sindh High Court Additional Judge Justice Khalid Hussain Shahani. However, commission members had said the party could have secured appointments for other candidates had it not insisted on two preferred nominees for the Sindh High Court.