PHC lifts status quo on uplift schemes in Peshawar
National
January 21, 2021
PESHAWAR: A division bench of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Wednesday okayed development schemes in all 14 provincial constituencies of the Peshawar district.
The bench comprising Justice Laal Jan and Justice Naeem Anwar dismissed the multiple writ petitions filed by MPAs Khushdil Khan and Salahuddin from ANP. It lifted the status quo issued on all development schemes, which had practically halted all development works in the provincial capital since March 2020.
The advocate general appeared for the KP government while Khushdil Khan, being a senior advocate of the Supreme Court, himself appeared to plead the case. Khushdil Khan argued that the government could not discriminate amongst various constituencies, adding it and must release equal development funds to each provincial assembly constituency.
The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday rejected the petitions of two opposition MPAs against different development schemes in the provincial capital. APP/File
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday rejected the petitions of two opposition MPAs against different development schemes in the provincial capital over the alleged discrimination between the ruling and opposition members.
A bench consisting of Justice Lal Jan Khattak and Justice Mohammad Naeem Anwar pronounced a short order in that respect after the completion of arguments by both sides and allowed development schemes in all 14 provincial constituencies of Peshawar district.
It also vacated the stay order issued for all development schemes in Peshawar. The stay order have halted all development work in the district since Apr 2020.
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The Asma Jahangir Group has maintained its dominance in the apex regularity body of lawyers known as the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) by securing 18 of the 23 total seats in the elections.
The same group s candidate, Khush Dil Khan, has been elected as the new vice chairman of the PBC unopposed for a period of one year. Khan is also a sitting MPA of the Awami National Party (ANP) in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Assembly.
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Speaker Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani chaired the sitting, which was held after a break of one month.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Monday called upon the federal government to take concrete steps to stop the fresh wave of terrorism in the country. AFP/File
PESHAWAR: Condemning the brutal killing of 10 people in Balochistan’s Mach coalfield, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Monday called upon the federal government to take concrete steps to stop the fresh wave of terrorism in the country.
The resolution unanimously passed by the house also flayed the killing of a youngster by the police in Islamabad and expressed solidarity with the families of the victims of both incidents.
Speaker Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani chaired the sitting, which was held after a break of one month.