SC may take up OCAC case today

Published December 3, 2005

ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: The Supreme Court is likely to take up on Monday a challenge to the composition of a nine-member Oil Companies Advisory Committee (OCAC), which determines oil prices in the country. A three-member bench, comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice M. Javed Buttar and Justice Tassadduq Hussain Jillani, will also consider federal government’s response over the appointment of OCAC’s secretary, who is a private person.

In the last hearing, the court had asked Attorney General Makhdoom Ali Khan to seek instructions from the ministry of petroleum and submit records and functions of the OCAC.

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