SHC orders cabinet meeting on census
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The Sindh High Court directed the federal cabinet secretary on Tuesday to immediately convene a meeting for addressing the delay in the issuance of 2017 census results.
A two-member bench, headed by Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, issued the directive while hearing pleas pertaining to delays in the release of census results and in turn, the local government (LG) elections.
The court also issued a notice to the Attorney General of Pakistan (AGP), seeking a progress report on the ordered meeting.
At the hearing, a petitioner s counsel lamented the delay in LG polls in Karachi, at which the deputy attorney general told the court that the matter of the issuance of census results had been addressed and the relevant committee had sent its recommendations to the federal cabinet.
NADRA ordered to make policy for orphans
Petitioner claims the body is refusing to issue him a NIC without his parents records
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KARACHI:
The Sindh High Court directed on Friday the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) to immediately prepare a policy regarding the provision of National Identity Cards (NICs) to orphans.
A two-member bench, led by Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, was hearing a plea pertaining to the non-provision of a NIC to an orphaned young man.
The petitioner, Anas Ahmed, informed the court that his mother died while giving birth to him, and he did not know the whereabouts of his father. He claimed he had been brought up by a neighbour.
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