Senate clarification

Published May 16, 2007

ISLAMABAD, May 15: A spokesman of the Senate Secretariat, while commenting on a news item appearing in Dawn on May 11 that the chairman Senate and Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry were seated on 21J and 21L with the seat 21K between the two being vacant on PK-386 from Lahore to Islamabad on Sunday May 6, has clarified that the seat between the two dignitaries was occupied by Mr Javed Ali Shah.

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