BAHAWALPUR, Aug 22: Local lawyers community on Friday flayed its Multan fraternity for exploiting the name of south Punjab with regard to the appointment of new judges of the Lahore High Court.
Most of senior lawyers and former office-bearers of the LHC’s Bahawalpur bench and DBAs regretted that dropping the name of any Multan lawyer from judges’ list was being described as ignoring the whole south Punjab.
They reminded their counterparts that Bahawalpur’s senior lawyer Sheikh Hakim Ali was being tipped as a high court judge, negating the impression that the south Punjab had been ignored in the new appointments of LHC judges.
However, they advised them to raise the issue of neglecting only the Multan lawyers and not the lawyers of the whole south Punjab.
They further advised their Multan fellows that they should plead their case in an effective manner for the representation of only Multan in the appointment of new judges.
Reminding the Multan lawyers, they said the Bahawalpur bench had been given due representation in the appointment of LHC judges whenever the occasion rose in the past.
To keep the record straight, they said Bahawalpur’s judge Allah Nawaz Khan had been the chief justice of the Lahore High Court. Even before him, noted lawyer Khan Munawar Elahi was elevated to the LHC judge.
Justice Malik Farrukh Mahmood had been inducted as a judge of the Lahore High Court last year while Justice Akhtar Shabbir was already on its strength, they said.
However, they urged President Pervez Musharraf to look into the request of Multan’s lawyers in this regard.
PO ARRESTED: Hafiz Muhammad Aslam, a proclaimed offender carrying headmoney of Rs0.3 million, was arrested at Liaquatpur.
A police source told Dawn here on Friday that the PO’s arrest was made from a Karachi-bound coach on Thursday night. He said the police on a tip-off raided the Liaquatpur bus stand and arrested the PO.
Hafiz Aslam of Mauza Khairpur Tamewali and his two accomplices were involved in the murder of inspector Hakim Shahbaz Sherazi in Chishtian about three years ago. Court declared him PO while the Punjab government had announced headmoney for his arrest. The arrested PO disclosed that one of his accomplices had already been killed in a police encounter sometime ago.
Bus service: Daewoo has decided to extend its service to Bahawalpur.
This was stated by the company’s officials who visited the city on Thursday.
They said initially the company would ply its buses from Bahawalpur to Lahore, Islamabad and Faisalabad within three months.
It would construct its terminal on Ahmadpur East Road near Sadiq Public School.
The district Nazim and the DCO assured them their cooperation in this regard.
THEFT: Thieves took away a diamond jewellery set, two diamond rings and $3,500 from the house of Fayyaz Ahmad in Model Town.
According to police, the jewellery and dollars were brought by Fayyaz’s daughter from the US recently.
WIFE’S KILLER HELD: Yazman police arrested one Ramzan of Chak 49-DB, a drug-addict, on the charge of killing his wife Faizan and chopping of one of the hands of his 12-year-old daughter Sumera.
The accused had a quarrel with his wife over money.
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