HYDERABAD: Lawyers appeal to chief justice
HYDERABAD, Feb 18: A group of lawyers has appealed to Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to ensure that the building of the district and sessions courts will not be converted into a university or handed over to builders.
They requested the chief justice to take suo motu notice of the shifting of the district and sessions courts to the civil courts building. In a statement, the lawyers expressed apprehensions that the district and sessions courts building had not been vacated for renovation as said by the administration.
They said that the district and sessions judge was ready to extend assurance in this regard in a general body meeting of the Hyderabad District Bar Association but since he was a judicial officer, he could be transferred any time. The lawyers said that an assurance only by the chief justice was acceptable.
They sought intervention of the chief justice to ensure that the building was really being renovated and after completion of the work, it would be inaugurated by the chief justice.
They said that the civil courts building lacked facilities of library, and judicial lock-up, etc. They said that the government may justify the use of the district and sessions court building for other purposes on the ground that new districts had been created and judges would be posted there thus the civil courts building was sufficient to cater to needs of Hyderabad district.
Training workshop: The participants of a three-day training workshop, which concluded at the Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, on Saturday, said that rural women would start small businesses related to food processing and preservation with the help of the university.
They said that the rural women had learnt through a training course how fruits, vegetables, milk and other food items could be preserved and processed for domestic use and trade.
The workshop was aimed at training women to help them start small business and preserve fruits and vegetables for domestic uses. The course included methods of fruit and vegetable dehydration and preparation of jams, juices, sweets, cakes, biscuits and dairy products.
The women participants were of the view that the training would provide them an opportunity to enter the business by selling processed foods.
The trained women may also use the skills to improve their families’ food security and nutritional intake or save money by replacing products bought at higher rates, including bakery goods, they said.