PESHAWAR, April 27: The Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court, Justice Tariq Pervez, laid the foundation stone on Friday of a project to construct residential quarters for district judges in Hayatabad under the foreign-funded Access to Justice Programme.

Thirty houses would be built for district judges and the project would cost Rs97.4 million, said a press release.

The chief justice was informed that in the first phase 24 residential quarters would be constructed under the project financed by the Asian Development Bank.

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