CHITRAL: District Bar Association, Chitral, president Niaz A Niazi advocate has said that work on the construction of judicial complex will resume in coming March.

He said the work remained suspended for the last two years due to shortage of funds.

Talking to mediapersons at Chitral Press Club here the other day, he said Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan told a delegation of lawyers from Chitral in a recent meeting in Peshawar that the government had released a sum of Rs80 million for completion of the work.

Mr Niazi said the delay in completion of the project had been causing problems to all the stakeholders, including litigants, lawyers and the judiciary’s staff, due to limited space in the present kutcheri.

He said the PHC chief justice had assured them that a judge of the high court would regularly visit Chitral on monthly basis to hear cases.

He said Justice Rashid had ordered the relevant quarters to also prepare feasibility report of judicial complex for Upper Chitral district.

Published in Dawn, January 29th, 2021