Friday, 29 July 2011

Notification making Sohail Ahmed OSD non-practical: SC

 The Supreme Court (SC) has termed the notification making Sohail Ahmed OSD non-practical and ordered that the competent authority appoint him any appropriate position in seven days, Geo News reported Friday.
On the reinstatement of Hussain Asghar, the apex court said he should be given charge in the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) when he joins.
Earlier during proceedings of the Hajj scandal case, Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq told a six-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry that Chief Minister
Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) Syed Mehdi Shah had stopped Hussain Asghar from returning and he was in Kachura.
While hearing the case, CJ remarked that a simple issue has been turned complicated unnecessarily.
The hearing of the case has been adjourned for an indefinite period.
The court had directed the AG to submit the prime minister's response by today. Other members of the bench hearing the Haj corruption case are Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan, Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, Justice Tariq Parvez and Justice Amir Hani Muslim.
The order stated that the parliamentarians had brought the hajj corruption issue to the court also a Saudi prince wrote a letter to the SC regarding mismanagement in hajj affairs.

Meeting at Presidency to discuss SC orders

A meeting with the government’s coalition partners has been called at the Presidency to discuss the orders of the Supreme Court, Geo News reported Friday.
According to sources, the meeting will be chaired by President Asif Ali Zardari and attended by Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani , Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), along with the Chief Ministers of Sindh, KP, Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan
The opposition leader in the Punjab Assembly Raja Riaz and Senator Babar Awan have also been invited to attend the meeting, sources added.
Babar Awan is expected to brief the meeting on legal matters, while the meeting will also discuss matters between the center and provinces