MULTAN, May 8: The Pakistan Bar Council has allowed former Balochistan governor Ameerulmulk Mengal to resume practice as an advocate of the Supreme Court.

A meeting of the PBC’s enrolment committee was held here on Thursday with Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in the chair. The other two members on the committee were Hafiz Abdul Rahman Ansari and Rasheed A Rizvi.

Besides the application of Mr Mengal, the committee also took up applications of 16 advocates, who wanted to be enrolled as advocate of the apex court. All the applicants belonged to Multan and Bahawalpur.

After conducting interviews of the applicants, the committee approved the cases of 11 advocates. They are Akhtar Muneer Pirzada (Bahawalpur), Muhammad Ashraf (Multan), Muhammad Sharif Bhatti (Bahawalpur), Muhammad Sohail Iftikhar (Bahawalpur), Malik Ghulam Yasin Missen (Bahawalpur), Bashir Ahmad Chaudhry (Multan), Muhammad Saleem Malik (Dera Ghazi Khan), Syed Saleemuddin Aftab (Bahawalpur), Pir Muhammad Asif Rafi (Multan), Malik Muhammad Sadiq Channer (Bahawalpur) and Muhammad Zikria Sheikh (Multan).

Four of the remaining five applicants were found unfit to be allowed to practice as advocate of the apex court. Their cases, however, were deferred for further considerations in future meetings of the committee.

The application of Muhammad Naveed Hashmi of Multan was rejected on the grounds that he had been removed from judicial service as civil judge, and he had moved the services tribunal against his removal.

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