Pakistan Steel Mills: SC to hear case after 7 years

ISLAMABAD: A nine-member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan is hearing review petitions of the federal government and Arif Habib Securities against the cancellation of privatisation of the Pakistan Steel (PS) Thursday.

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will head the bench. Seven years ago, the SC deemed the privatisation illegal and invalidated it in a decision written by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.

The opposition parties had termed it an FIR against the then government and then prime minister Shaukat Aziz and had demanded his resignation.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 2^nd, 2013.