Pakistan's top court moved against President Asif Ali Zardari late Saturday, suspending his order appointing a judge at odds with advice from the country's top judicial authority, a lawyer said. The move came after Zardari ignored a nomination from Pakistan's popular Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to a vacancy on the Supreme Court, lawyers and legal experts said. Chaudhry submitted Justice Saqib Nisar as his recommendation for the spare seat, but Zardari instead chose to appoint Khawaja Sharif, currently the chief judge in the country's second biggest city of Lahore. 'The appointment made by the president was a clear violation of the constitution and the Supreme Court today suspended that order,' Hamid Khan, a senior Supreme Court lawyer told selfnews. 'The court suspended the presidential order according to the constitution, because the president made the appointment without the consultation of the chief justice of Pakistan,' Khan added. Lawyers said Chaudhry immediately convened a meeting of the three-member Supreme Court bench after the presidential order to discuss the case. The bench summoned Pakistan's attorney general in relation to the case and adjourned the next hearing until February 18, Khan told selfnews. Zardari last March reinstated Chaudhry and other judges who were sacked under emergency rule by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, in a bid to stave of violent protests in the capital and under massive Western pressure. 