Performance of 11 LHC judges sent to SC

LAHORE

A performance report of 11 additional judges of the Lahore high Court (LHC) has been sent to the Supreme Court for considering their permanent appointment as LHC judges.

The judges whose performance report was sent to the SC included Justice Hafiz Shahid Nadeem Kahlun, Justice Shahid Mubeen, Justice Sardar Ahmad Naeem, Justice Mushtaq Ahmad Tarar, Justice Farrukh Gulzar Awan, Justice Erum Sajad Gul, Justice Raja Shahid Mehmood Abbasi, Justice Aslam Javed Minhas, Justice Shehram Sarwar Ch, Justice Muhammad Sajid Mehmood Sethi and Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar, sources said. The performance report would be discussed in a meeting of the Judicial Commission likely to be held in two weeks.

Plea against MPA: A writ petition has been filed in the Lahore High Court for disqualification of Member Provincial Assembly Mian Tariq Mehmood of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) for concealing facts in nomination papers.

Chaudhary Ijaz, a runner-up candidate of the PML-Q from PP-113, Gujrat, filed a petition through his counsel Fayyaz Mehr advocate. He said that Mian Tariq Mehmood had assets in Belgium but he concealed them from the Election Commission of Pakistan while submitting his nomination papers. He stated he worked in Belgium despite being an MPA in the previous tenure of the government. He alleged that Mian Tariq had a Belgian passport and residence permit but he did not mention it in his nomination papers which showed he was dishonest. Thus, he has committed violation of Article 62 and 63 of the Constitution and did not qualify to be a member of the provincial legislative assembly, he argued.

CPEC: Another petition has been filed in the Lahore High Court challenging establishment of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor and other 12 projects including Sahiwal and Thar Col power projects.

The Lawyers Foundation for Justice filed a petition through A K Dogar and submitted that the projects should not be established as they would create environmental problems in the country.

He said the government had to borrow $46 billion for the projects. He claimed the US had offered one billion dollars, so work on the projects should be stopped till then. "China and all other developed countries are shifting their energy production to other sources rather than coal but it is being ignored in Pakistan," he said and prayed to the court to order the government to stop the projects.