June 15, 2002	Saturday	Rabi-us-Sani 3, 1423

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SAHIWAL, June 14: New parliament will be competent enough to decide the fate of the district government system after the restoration of the 1973 Constitution.

This was said by Federal Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Dr Khalid Ranjha while talking to newsmen at the local Bar room on Friday.

He said no draft for constitutional amendments to protect the enactment under the PCO was being prepared. Similarly, no law was under consideration to place restriction on the PML (N) or any other party for taking part in elections.

Speaking to lawyers, he said, the summary for law reforms had been sent to the Federal government for approval. It was also recommended that decree powers upto the cost of Rs5 million be vested on the district and sessions judges, he said.

No anti-terrorism courts, he said, were being established at the DHQ level because the existing courts were processing only 72 cases of terrorism at present.

He urged the lawyers to send their recommendations to the Law Commission through the district bar only. He also announced a grant of Rs200,000 for the bar library for which bar president Liaquat Shah thanked the minister.

DEMANDED: The local District Bar Association on Friday demanded that a case should be registered against DSP Rai Zamir besides dismissing Harappa SHO for misbehaving with the Bar president.

This demand was made in a resolution adopted in the meeting of the DBA under the chairmanship of its president Liaquat Shah here on Friday.

12-YEAR RI: Additional District and Sessions judge Malik Asif on Friday handed down 12-year hard jail and fined Rs10,000 to a convict in a sodomy case.

He will undergo six-month rigorous imprisonment if he fails to make the payment of fine.

According to the prosecution, Zafar Iqbal of Chak 56-GD had committed the crime with Waseem on Nov 16, 2000.