LAHORE: A recently-appointed provincial law officer tendered on Tuesday his resignation citing personal reasons.

Additional Advocate General Adeel Aqil Mirza sent his resignation to Advocate General of Punjab Ahmad Awais. Sources said the AGP would persuade Mr Mirza to take his resignation back.

The Punjab government on December 7 appointed 18 new additional advocate generals and 42 assistant advocate generals. The government retained four law officers working since previous political regimes.

Faisal Hussain Chaudhry, brother of Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, was also appointed additional advocate general among others mostly affiliated to lawyers’ wings of Pakistan Tehreek-Insaf and the PML-Q.

The law officers retained by the PTI government include additional advocate generals Shan Gull, Imtiaz Kaifi, Malik Abdul Aziz Awan, Rana Shamshad and Muhammad Shabbir Cheena.

Published in Dawn, December 12th, 2018