The Lahore High Court issued notice for December 20 to Punjab advocate general and attorney general of Pakistan for assistance in proceedings on a petition seeking removal of governor Punjab Sardar Latif Khosa. Justice Khalid Mehmood heard the petition filed by a local lawyer Afaq ahmed alleging that Governor Latif Khosa was using funds secretly from national exchequer for levelling public opinion in favour of establishing Seriaki province in Southern Punjab. He said as the governor belonged to southern Punjab and he is spending the funds in the area to mobilise the public for the demand of separate province which he could not do under the constitution.
He said the constitution does not allow a governor to take part in political activities of his party like this. He said Khosa was using his powers unconstitutionally by indulging in the separate province campaign. He prayed to the court to pass instruction to disqualify the governor and direct prime minister of Pakistan to appoint a new governor.
PETITION AGAINST MEDICAL COLLEGES DISMISSED: Chief justice Lahore High Court Sh Azmat Saeed on Wednesday dismissed an application seeking stay order against professional part-1 MBBS examinations of four newly established “unrecognized” government medical colleges being held by health sciences (UHS). Application was filed by Noshab A Khan advocate in his main petition pending in the court of LHC CJ against the four medial collages. The students of the four medical colleges are going to appear in the MBBS examinations on December 19. The petitioner contended that Khwaja Safdar Medical College Sialkot, Gujranwala Medical College, DG Khan Medical College and Sahiwal Medical College had not yet been recognised by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) which is mandatory under the law for permitting students to take examination or get affiliation with UHS.
The petitioner submitted in his petition that the Punjab government had inaugurated four medical colleges without recognition of the PMDC for validation of medical qualifications. He had prayed that UHS be restrained from going ahead with the MBBS part-1 examinations to the extent of the four colleges in 2011-12 session without recognition of the said colleges by PMDC as per law.
KHOSA’S PETITION DISMISSED: District and Session Judge Mujahid Mustaqeem Ahmed dismissed the application filed by former chief minister Dost Muhammad Khosa allegedly involved in abducting and killing Sapna Khan seeking transfer of case from AD&S Judge Choudhary Nazeer Ahmed’s court to any other court and referred the matter to CCPO Lahore.
‘CM’S DECISION ON IG PRISONS’ APPOINTMENT FINAL’: The Punjab chief secretary on Wednesday informed the LHC that the CM will decide matter against appointment of Punjab Inspector General of Prisons Kokab Nadeem Warraich within three weeks. Justice Umar Ata Bandial was hearing the petition filed by Mian Farooq Nazeer, a DIG prisons against appointment of Kokab Nadeem as IG. A provincial law officer requested the court to adjourn the matter for three weeks as the application had been forwarded to the chief minister by the chief secretary for final decision. The court accepting the request adjourned the matter till January 12.
LHC STOPS PU VC FROM TAKING ACTION AGAINST DR NAZ: LHC has directed the Punjab University vice chancellor to not to take any adverse action against petitioner Dr Ahsan Akhtar Naz, Director Institute of Mass Communication Studies university of Punjab till Dec 22. Hearing petition filed by Naz that challenged the enquiry being conducted by Punjab University against him under PEEDA Act 2006, Justice Umar Ata Bandial stopped the VC from taking an action and also summoned him and the Punjab govt on December 22.
WARRANTS FOR MODEL TOWN AC ISSUED: Justice Muhammad Khalid Mehmood Khan on Wednesday, while hearing a petition against the demolition of schools in violation of court orders, issued bail-able arrest warrants for the Model Town Assistant Commissioner Irfan Maman over his absence in the court proceedings. Pakistan Foundation Technical Institute (a charitable school for boys) had pleaded that the government had demolished eight parts of the school despite court restriction.
REMAND EXTENDED IN NATIONAL BANK SCAM, FAKE ALLOTMENT CASE: An accountability court extended the judicial remand of Imtinan Saeed Advocate, Omeed Ayyaz Mehmood and Faisal Rasheed involved in embezzlement of Rs 140m, obtained from NBP as loan through fake documents till Dec 23. The accused Omeed Ayyaz Mehmood was manager of National Bank of Pakistan Lytton Road branch while Imtinan Saeed was the legal council of the bank.
Imtinan Saeed and Faisal Rasheed established five different companies as M/s: Paragon Leather, M/s: Imperial Chemicals, M/s: Ikhlaq Traders, M/s: Y to K Traders and M/s: Copier Traders and took fake loans. The accused deliberately and with malafide intention omitted verification process to ascertain genuineness of the mortgaged properties, business worth of borrowers, turnover and creditworthiness An accountability court on Wednesday extended the judicial remand of Naveed Ahmad, Nadeem Ahmad and Nazeer Ahmad Sindhu till December 23. Accused had been arrested on the charges of fake allotment of 14 plots in Model Town Extension.
