ISLAMABAD: A Pakistan court has rejected the objection raised by the Registrar Office of the Islamabad High Court on a petition filed by the party of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan against the Capital Development Authority's opinion on the Central Secretariat here.
Islamabad High Court (IHC) Justice Saman Rafat Imtiaz on Monday rejected the objection raised by the IHC registrar's office on the petition filed by Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (IHC) party on the grounds that it was made "without proper authorisation". Was filed. The newspaper gave this news on Tuesday.
This petition was filed by party general secretary Omar Ayub through advocate Shoaib Shaheen.
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) last week sealed the secretariat in Islamabad over what it termed encroachment.
In her petition, she described the operation and sealing of her secretariat as "without legal authority, malicious, political persecution, without following due process of law and contrary to the provisions provided under the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973".The report said.
It said Arshad Dad and Naseem Ur Rehman, both members of the Central Finance Board, purchased the commercial plot from a person named Sartaj Ali through an agreement dated July 17, 2020.
Quoting the petition, the report said Ali had written a letter to the CDA for transfer of allotment of the plot on July 29, 2020 and the CDA had allotted/transferred the plot in his name through a letter dated July 30, 2020. done.
However, on May 23, the party claimed that it learned that the CDA was demolishing the head office "in collusion with the Islamabad Police", but neither of them was able to give any order or notice on the encroachment, it claimed. Did and said. Both the CDA and the police said that the plot was Al's and a notice was sent to him.
The petition requests the court to declare the CDA's action illegal.The newspaper said the IHC was ready to hear arguments on the petition from Tuesday, but the IHC would also remain closed due to the public holiday declared by the federal government to commemorate Pakistan's nuclear tests in 1998. A court official said the hearing on the petition would be rescheduled accordingly.
Islamabad High Court (IHC) Justice Saman Rafat Imtiaz on Monday rejected the objection raised by the IHC registrar's office on the petition filed by Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (IHC) party on the grounds that it was made "without proper authorisation". Was filed. The newspaper gave this news on Tuesday.
This petition was filed by party general secretary Omar Ayub through advocate Shoaib Shaheen.
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) last week sealed the secretariat in Islamabad over what it termed encroachment.
In her petition, she described the operation and sealing of her secretariat as "without legal authority, malicious, political persecution, without following due process of law and contrary to the provisions provided under the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973".The report said.
It said Arshad Dad and Naseem Ur Rehman, both members of the Central Finance Board, purchased the commercial plot from a person named Sartaj Ali through an agreement dated July 17, 2020.
Quoting the petition, the report said Ali had written a letter to the CDA for transfer of allotment of the plot on July 29, 2020 and the CDA had allotted/transferred the plot in his name through a letter dated July 30, 2020. done.
However, on May 23, the party claimed that it learned that the CDA was demolishing the head office "in collusion with the Islamabad Police", but neither of them was able to give any order or notice on the encroachment, it claimed. Did and said. Both the CDA and the police said that the plot was Al's and a notice was sent to him.
The petition requests the court to declare the CDA's action illegal.The newspaper said the IHC was ready to hear arguments on the petition from Tuesday, but the IHC would also remain closed due to the public holiday declared by the federal government to commemorate Pakistan's nuclear tests in 1998. A court official said the hearing on the petition would be rescheduled accordingly.
