LHC reserves judgment on press secretary

The petition challenged the appointment of Shoaib Bin Aziz as press secretary of Punjab Chief Minister

LAHORE: Justice Shahid Karim of Lahore High Court (LHC) reserved his judgment on Monday  on a petition challenging the appointment of Shoaib Bin Aziz as press secretary of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif. Petitioner Sheraz Zaka filed a petition stating that Shoaib, while serving as director general of public relations department, had been found guilty in by the anti-corruption department of bogus payments to an advertising agency. It added criminal proceedings were pending against Shoaib for the last three years. Sheraz said that Shoaib was a retired government officer and that should not be appointed as a press secretary as similar task was being performed by the secretary of information and public relations. He added that his appointment would amount to waste the public money.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 30^th, 2017.