KARACHI: Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday sought the law and procedure for creation of new district from the counsel of petitioner Aamir Liquat Hussain, Member of National Assembly of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), who challenged a new district Keamari in Karachi Division.
A division bench of SHC headed by Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar during the hearing of petition inquired about the procedure of creation of new district when Khursheed Khan Advocate, counsel for petitioner told the court that hue and cry is being made since the emergence of reports of taking over of Karachi by federal government.
Justice Mazhar said that which law has been violated by creating a new district and whose jurisdiction is it to do? Court sought the procedure from the petitioner for creation of new district before issuing the notice to provincial government.
PTI MNA moved the court against the decision of Sindh Government that bifurcated district West of Karachi to carve out a new district namely. Dr. Aamir made Sindh Government and its departments respondents in the petition by praying the court to issue orders for the reversal of the decision to create new district Keamari in Karachi Division. He requested that the decision should be declared null and void as it is against the law.
According to the petition, the new district only serves to give a political advantage to the Pakistan Peoples Party, which is ruling in Sindh. He submitted in the court that no census was conducted in District West before the decision to carve out the new district and pleaded the court to declare the act of provincial government illegal.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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