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PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the provincial police chief and home secretary seeking their response to a petition about the alleged harassment of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf activists. A bench consisting of Justice Abdul Shakoor and Justice Syed Arshad Ali issued the order after holding a preliminary hearing into a petition jointly filed by Nadeem Khan and 230 other PTI activists, who accused the police of illegally raiding their houses and harassing them and their families. The petitioners requested the court to stop police from carrying out those “illegal” activities. Lawyer Mohammad Muazzam Butt appeared for the petitioners and...
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PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench on Thursday rejected review petition filed by the principal of historical Edwardes College Peshawar, challenging last month’s judgment of the court of declaring the college a nationalised educational institution governed by a government constituted Board of Governors (BoG). The bench of Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan and Justice Mohammad Nasir Mahfooz pronounced the order after preliminary hearing of the petition of Principal retired Brigadier Nayyar Firdous, who claimed that he was necessary party to the case and was not heard by the court while pronouncing the judgment on October 1. The high court had on October 1...
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PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday directed the prime minister’s principal secretary and federal finance secretary to respond to a petition seeking its orders for the federal and provincial governments to provide three per cent share in the National Finance Commission Award and Rs100 billion funds annually for the development of the merged tribal districts. A bench consisting of Justice Roohul Amin Khan and Justice Wiqar Ahmad ordered the filing of those comments within a fortnight. The order was issued following the preliminary hearing into a petition filed by the newly-formed Tehreek-i-Islahat Pakistan political party through its vice-chairman, Malik Habib Noor...
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PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday declared unconstitutional the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government act of increasing retirement age of government servants from 60 to 63 years by amending the civil servants law. A bench consisting of Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth and Justice Mohammad Naeem Anwar accepted 10 petitions filed by lawyer Shabina Noor and people from other walks of life against the KP Civil Servants (Amendment) Act, 2019, through which the relevant provision of law was amended to increase the retirement age. The bench pronounced a short order after the completion of arguments by lawyers for the petitioners and provincial advocate...
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