KARACHI: A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed will take up cases for hearing at the apex court’s Karachi registry on Jan 10.

According to the court roster issued on Saturday, the three-judge bench headed by the CJP and comprising Justice Faisal Arab and Justice Sajjad Ali Shah will hear the cases on Friday.

The cases will also be fixed before another bench comprising Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Maqbool Baqar at the Supreme Court registry on Jan 10. The cause list will be issued later.

Meanwhile, the CJP, sworn in as the top judge of the country on Dec 21 following the retirement of Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, on Saturday visited the mausoleum of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

Justice Gulzar Ahmed plants a sapling on the premises of the Quaid-i-Azam’s mausoleum

The chief justice laid a wreath on the Quaid’s grave and offered fateha. The CJP also wrote his expressions of gratitude in the visitors’ book and took a round of the premises of the Quaid’s mausoleum and planted a sapling there.

Earlier CJP Ahmed had passed several orders against unauthorised constructions, encroachments on amenity plots, parks and other public spaces, commercial activities on cantonment lands, conversion of residential and amenity plots into commercial spaces in an effort to restore the past glory of the provincial capital.

These orders were passed on a set of petitions, including the main petition of former city nazim Advocate Niamatullah Khan, against encroachments on public lands and conversion of amenity plots for commercial and residential purposes.

Published in Dawn, January 5th, 2020