June 1, 2003	Sunday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 29, 1424

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ISLAMABAD, May 31: The Supreme Court will not take up the constitutional petition filed by the APNS, challenging the Seventh Wage Board Award, on June 3, as one member of the three-member bench would not be available.

On the last hearing it was decided that the petition would be taken up for hearing on June 3 and for three days, the court would not fix any other case.

When contacted, an official of the Supreme Court told Dawn that the case was adjourned as the bench was incomplete for hearing the case. Justice Mohammad Nawaz Abbasi would not sit on the bench for two days. No next date is yet fixed.

The petitioner association, All-Pakistan Newspapers Society, has approached the apex court with the request to declare that the government had no powers to constitute the wage board. On the last date of hearing when the court was agreed to start hearing on May 12, and both the counsels of APNS and the PFUJ also agreed to the date, Advocate Akram Sheikh, representative of the breakaway group of PFUJ, called the Dastoor group, asked the court to adjourn the case to a date in next month and the court fixed June 3.

The judges of Supreme Court would go on three-month-long summer vacation from mid-June.