Daily Times
June 3, 2021
The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday summoned the Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) to appear before court in the Haripur Cement plant case.
A three-member SC bench, comprising of Justice Mushir Alam, Justice Sardar Tariq Masood and Justice Amin-Ud-Din Khan, heard the case.
During the course of proceedings, Justice Mushir Alam asked who acquired the land for the cement factory.
He asked if the provincial government acquired the land of the Haripur Cement plant or if it was acquired by the Frontier Works Organization (FWO). The Deputy Advocate General Khyber Pakhtunkhwa replied that the KP government acquired the land for the cement plant.
ISLAMABAD: After overruling its objections, the Supreme Court has ordered the registrar’s office to fix before the court a petition of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) in which the party has questioned the results of 2017 census.
While hearing an appeal in his chambers, Justice Mushir Alam ordered the registrar’s office to fix the matter in due course of time. The office had earlier returned the petition with objections.
Moved through president of the Sindh High Court Bar Association Salahuddin Ahmed on Oct 22 last year on behalf of MQM’s convenor Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and other leaders like Amir Khan, Kanwar Naveed Jamil, Waseem Akhtar, Faisal Sabzwari, Hamidul Zafar and Muhammad Jawed Hanif Khan, the joint petition had pleaded for conduct of a fresh and transparent census in Sindh, especially its urban centres such as Karachi and Hyderabad.
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