KARACHI, March 4: A division bench of the Sindh High Court issued notices on Tuesday to Lever Brothers Pakistan, the secretary home and others for March 30, on a petition filed by Yaqoob Alvani who questioned the publishing of Pakistan’s national flag on the wrapper of a product of the respondent firm.
The bench comprised Justice Mohammed Roshan Essani and Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali.
Mr Alvani, a businessman of Karachi, submitted that Lever Brothers had printed Pakistan’s national flag on both sides of the wrapper of their soap product Lifebuoy. The users of soap normally did not preserve wrapper and throw it in dustbin or in street, which would amount to showing disrespect to the national flag.
He stated that he drew the attention of the company to this mistake, but the latter asked him to approach court.
He prayed to the court to stop the company from printing the national flag on its products.
The same bench issued notices to the advocate-general Sindh and others on a petition filed by Ghulam Mohiuddin against harassment.
REPORT SOUGHT: The IGP Sindh was directed on Tuesday by a division bench of the High Court of Sindh to provide details of the cases against an alleged detainee Ata-ur-Rehman alias Naeem Bokhari within fifteen days.
The direction was issued by a bench consisting of Justice Shabbir Ahmed and Justice Muhammed Azizullah Memon, during the hearing of a constitutional petition filed by the sister of the alleged detainee.
The petitioner maintained that it had been nine months since her brother was arrested from her residence by a joint team of law enforcers, and he still remained untraceable.
The bench directed the IGP to provide details of all the cases pending against the alleged detainee, and also of his whereabouts.—PPI/APP
