A three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, heard the case at the Supreme Court registry on Saturday.
The petitioner argued that she was offering free education to children without any support from the government.
To this, the CJP responded saying that the children could not be allowed to study on the footpath at the same time reassuring the petitioner that the future of the children was equally important for the court.
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The chief justice remarked that he did not want the children to study on a footpath but instead wanted a building constructed at the earliest for them.
He also ordered provision of adequate educational facilities for the schools.
After the hearing, Syeda Anfas Ali Shah, the brainchild behind the school, in an informal talk with the media said that around 600 children were being taught at the school.
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