Indian company’s counsel asked to show power of attorney

Objections made by advocate cause petition to be withdrawn.

PESHAWAR:  The owner of an Indian trading company was asked by the Peshawar High Court (PHC) to obtain an attested power of attorney from the Pakistani consulate in India in order to contest a case filed against Pakistan Customs.

Gokal Arora, an Indian trader, filed an application before the PHC seeking the recovery of his containers which were seized after being declared stolen from the National Logistic Company (NLC) by customs. Ghulam Muhiuddin Malik, the company’s attorney, filed an application but the hearing was adjourned after advocate Abdul Rauf Rohella objected Malik was not in possession of an authentic power of attorney.

Malik requested the court give him a short adjournment period which would allow him to obtain the required documents.

While addressing journalists, Malik said three containers belonging to the NLC had gone missing from Amangarh in Nowshera on October 29, 2010. He added customs claimed to have found those containers after taking possession of three containers belonging to his client on December 13, 2010. Malik maintained his client’s containers were carrying goods to Afghanistan under the Afghan Transit Trade Agreement of 1965.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 16^th, 2013.