The Supreme Court of Pakistan has disposed of a leave petition filed by the employees’ union of Javed Press against Sindh High Court’s May 30 order staying the Implementation Tribunal for Newspaper Employees from taking any coercive action against the APNS member petitioners.

According to an APNS press release issued in Karachi, the leave petition came up for hearing in the Supreme Court on Thursday. Senior legal counsel Abdul Hafeez Pirzada and Afzal Siddiqui appeared for APNS members and the deputy attorney general appeared on behalf of the federal government.

The Supreme Court desired that the High Court might dispose of the APNS constitutional petition No. 1151 of 2007 as expeditiously as possible. It directed the government to file its comments in the Sindh High Court within two weeks. The Sindh High Court will take up the case, as already fixed, on August 28.