Jul 5, 2021
On the occasion, the Additional Secretary took stock of various related aspects associated with SBM and its allied components wherein he was briefed about its current status and position by the ACD.
After taking a holistic review, Arun Baroka emphasized mobilising all the available resources effectively and productively so that desired results are achieved. He directed work in Coordination and cohesion besides stressed to sort out all the impediments, if any, in a stipulated time frame.
Moreover, he emphasised to work towards achieving the goal of plastic free rural India and solid and liquid waste management.
The court ordered the land acquiring department i.e. Military Estate Office, Peshawar, to pay compensation to the landowners as fixed by the Supreme Court in its Feb 15, 2018 verdict. DawnNewsTV/File
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has declared illegal an order of Nowshera’s district collector (deputy commissioner) to de-notify an award announced around two decades ago for acquiring 3,413 acres of land in Nowshera district for establishing an artillery range.
A bench consisting of Justice Roohul Amin Khan and Justice Mohammad Nasir Mahfooz accepted five petitions filed by several Nowshera residents against the Oct 7, 2019, de-notification by the district collector under Section 48 of the Land Acquisition Act.
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Four new judicial positions also being sanctioned
PHOTO: PHC
PESHAWAR:
The number of Accountability Courts and its judges is being increased in Peshawar due to the ever increasing flow of cases and four new vacancies are being created for judges.
Chief Justice Supreme Court of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmad Khan has already ordered the increase in the numbers of judges so as to ensure speedy work on the pending accountability cases across the country. He had ordered the establishment of new accountability courts to speed up the process of hearing of cases.
Under this program four new vacancies are being created in Peshawar’s accountability courts and these new posts will be soon be filled.
The 87-year-old had passed away a day ago.
He was the father of Supreme Court Justice Yahya Afridi and had also served as the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief secretary.
The people attended the funeral in large numbers, including Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmad Khan, Supreme Court and high court judges, politicians, current and former bureaucrats, lawyers and people from other walks of life.
Mr Omar, who had served as the minister for interior, state and frontier region and narcotics control in the interim government of PM Malik Meraj Khalid, belonged to the Adamkhel branch of Afridis.
He was born in London, UK, in Jan 1934. He had obtained education in Presentation Convent Murree, Bishop Cotton School Shimla (India), Karachi Grammar School, and Victoria College, Alexandria (Egypt).