Daily Times

LAHORE: Advocate Sheraz Zaka on Saturday moved an application before the Lahore High Court (LHC) challenging the recruitment of 500 persons by the provincial government in the Punjab Saaf Pani Company.

He filed this application in his already pending petitions challenging the formation of different companies, including Punjab Agricultural and Meat Company, Lahore Waste Management Company, Lahore Parking Company, Lahore Transport Company and Punjab Saaf Pani Company.

The petitioner had stated that these provincial companies, whose objects were restricted to one province, could not be formed under a federal statute of the Companies Ordinance, 1984.

He said that there should have been a provincial law to form such companies. He requested that the recruitment process in Punjab Saaf Pani Company should immediately be stopped.

He stated that on one hand there was a local government system and on the other the deputy commissioner system had been restored. He said that such companies’ formation was a burden on taxpayers’ money. He stated that the companies should be stopped from making recruitments.

Meanwhile, Minhajul Quran Administration Director Jawad Hamid filed an appeal before the Lahore High Court challenging a decision by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) of not summoning Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and others in the Model Town killings case.

He requested the court to declare these notices illegal and unconstitutional.

On March 3, 2016, the PAT and Minhajul Quran’s top authorities had filed a private complaint seeking trial of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Interior Minister Ch Nisar Ali Khan, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Saad Rafique, Pervez Rashid, Abid Sher Ali, Tauqir Shah, Azam Suleman and former Lahore commissioner Rashid Langaryal, accusing them of the ‘murder’ of innocent PAT workers in June 2014.

The trial court had partially accepted PAT’s plea and summoned the Punjab IG and others. The court had dismissed PAT’s plea seeking trial of the PM, CM, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah and eight other MNAs.

The appellate counsel stated that the trial court ignored the case evidence and erred by not summoning the 12 respondents. He alleged that the prime minister, his cabinet members and others were the real mastermind and abettors of the incident and they should also be tried for their crime. He requested to set aside the ATC decision and direct it to summon the 12 respondents.