three months.
(v) Statutory, regulatory and oversight bodies shall take steps to implement Article 251 without unnecessary delay and also ensure compliance by regulatees.
(vi) In the competitive examinations at federal level, the recommendations of government bodies noted above should be considered by the government for implementation without unnecessary delay.
(vii) Judgment in cases relating to public interest litigation and judgments enunciating a principal of law in terms of Article 189 must be translated into Urdu and should be published in line with Article 251 of the Constitution.
(viii) In court cases, government departments should make all reasonable efforts to submit their replies in Urdu to enable citizens to effectively enforce their legal rights.
(ix) If, subsequent to this judgment, any public bodies or public officials continue to violate the constitutional command contained in Article 251, citizens who suffer a tangible loss directly and foreseeably resulting from such violation shall be entitled to enforce any civil rights which may accrue to them on this account.
Article 251
(1)The national language of Pakistan is Urdu and arrangements shall be made for its being used for official and other purposes within 15 years from the commencing day.
(2) Subject to clause (1), the English language may be used for official purposes until arrangements are made for its replacement by Urdu.
(3) Without prejudice to the status of the national language, a provincial assembly may by law prescribe measures for the teaching, promotion and use of a provincial language in addition to the national language.
Meanwhile, the applicants Mahmood Naqvi and Kokab Iqbal termed the decision historic and said that the name of Chief Justice Jawwad S Khawaja will be written in the books after this historic verdict.
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