A view of the Sindh High Court. — Photo by Reuters

KARACHI: Responding to two constitutional petitions challenging the revival of the commissionerate system in Sindh, the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday issued notices to the federal and Sindh governments, DawnNews reported.

The court subsequently adjourned the hearing of the petitions indefinitely.

The two identical petitions had been filed by three civil society activists.

Advocate Qazi Khalid Ali filed the petitions on behalf of three petitioners — Aman newspaper editor Ajmal Dalhvi, former DJ College principal Prof Barrister Habibur Rehman and businessman Dr Arshad Abdullah Vohra — who had impleaded the federal ministry of law, justice and parliamentary affairs and the chief secretary of Sindh as respondents.

They submitted that all political parties, including the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, the Pakistan People’s Party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, the Pakistan Muslim League (Q), the Pakistan Muslim League (Functional), the Jamaat-i-Islami, the Awami National Party and others, had supported the Sindh Local Government Ordinance 2001 (SLGO 2001) in the past.

The local government system was successfully implemented not only in developed countries but also in Pakistan and particularly in Sindh in Karachi, they added.