Around 150 different petitions, miscellaneous applications and reports are fixed and expected to be taken up by the bench, according to the roster.
A larger bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, would resume from today the hearing of the case on the law and order sitaution in the city at its Karachi registry branch.
The five-member bench comprises Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, Justice Amir Hani Muslim and Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed.
Meanwhile, the chief secretary submitted his compliance report, saying a total of 1,882 CCTV cameras will be operational in city by November this year. Intelligence agencies have suggested to the government that the targeted operations should continue to control the law and order situation, and the police should remain prepared to face the protests.
Around 150 different petitions, miscellaneous applications and reports are fixed and expected to be taken up by the bench, according to the roster.
At today’s hearing, the larger bench is expected to take up the ‘sealed’ report submitted by the one-man commission constituted by the court during last month’s proceedings to probe into the disappearance of 19,000 Nato containers, and a shipload of arms and ammunition allegedly brought into Karachi.
Also, the bench may take up application filed by former minister and senator Babar Ghauri, who had denied the allegations regarding arms and ammunition smuggling leveled by the Rangers director-general and pleaded to join the proceedings.
Ahead of hearing, the SC’s registrar office has already issued notices to the attorney general of Pakistan, Sindh’s advocate general and prosecutor general, chief secretary, inspector general of police, directors general of Inter-Services Intelligence, Intelligence Bureau, Pakistan Maritime Security Agency, the Pakistan Rangers, interior and home secretaries, the election commission secretary, the director general of National Database and Registration Authority, members of the Sindh High Court’s inspection team-II and Customs department.
Also notices have been issued to the city government’s Settlement Survey and Land Record Department director, the Sindh Board of Revenue’s land utilisation department and the Karachi Development Authority’s land department director to appear with their reports.
PG’s absence
The proceedings and the prosecution’s role in taking the criminals to the task might have be hampered because of the absence of the prosecutor general following the resignation of Shahadat Awan.
The five-judges had passed a detailed judgment which contained various orders and directions on how to control lawlessness in the city.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 19th, 2013.
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