LAHORE: District and tehsil transition committees, constituted and notified by the local government and community development department to devise an action plan for restoration of the local governments, held their first meeting across the province on Friday.
In meetings, the participants were to discuss the matters pertaining to inventories of assets, liabilities of the local governments, preparation of a draft of transitional plan, assistance to the divisional and provincial teams, distribution of assets, liabilities and employees amongst the local governments.
In Lahore, district and tehsil committees met under the deputy commissioner and the assistant commissioners (ACs) of City, Model Town, Raiwind, Shalimar and Cantt tehsils.
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday rejected an argument of the Punjab government questioning the court’s jurisdiction to hear a set of petitions seeking implementation of a Supreme Court judgement about restoration of local governments in the province.
At the outset of the hearing, an additional advocate general argued that the court lacked the jurisdiction to hear the matter.
Justice Ayesha A Malik dismissed the law officer’s argument and observed the LHC could be approached for the implementation of a decision of the Supreme Court.
The law officer further stated that the government faced legal problems in enforcing the SC judgement in question. He said the government had also filed a review petition before the SC.