National interest: Sale of OGDL shares at LSE challenged

Petitioner says sale should be stopped in the national interest

LAHORE: A petition was moved in the Supreme Court’s registry on Monday requesting the court to issue a stay order against the sale of 10 per cent shares of the Oil and Gas Development Corporation Limited at the London Stock Exchange. Barrister Zafarullah Khan of the Watan Party filed the petition submitting that the shares were being sold at the LSE although there were several stock exchanges in Pakistan. He said the sale should be stopped in the national interest.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 15^th, 2014.