QUETTA, Aug 5: A division bench of the Balochistan High Court on Tuesday granted stay to Zarghoon town Nazim in a dispute over assets with the city government.

The bench comprising Chief Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Akhtar Zaman Malghani granted the stay order on a writ petition filed by Town Nazim Abdul Qahar Wadan.

The Zarghoon town has cited as respondents in the petition the provincial government, the National Reconstruction Bureau chairman, the provincial local government secretary and the district Nazim, pleading that the assets of the former municipal corporation were inherited by the town. The trial court had declared the district government the owner of the property.