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Posts published in “Day: March 16, 2013

Court restrains appointments to AJK Shariat Court

MIRPUR: Azad Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Friday imposed restriction on appointment of judges to the Shariat Court. An AJK High Court bench in Muzaffarabad on Friday directed the authorities not to make any appointments till the final decision on the case. The three-judge bench, headed by senior judge Munir Ahmed Chaudhry with members, Justice Tabassum Aftab Alvi and Justice Sardar Abdul Hamid, issued the order on a petition challenging the induction of Justice…

Car registration debate fuels wrangling over G-B status

By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, Mar 15 GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) Assembly proceedings on Wednesday were dominated by a debate on whether the residents of G-B were Pakistani citizens or not. The discussion started after Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) legislator Mirza Hussain spoke about the amnesty scheme offered by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) for registering non-custom paid (NCP) vehicles. Hussain said residents of G-B must not be forced to have their…