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KARACHI, March 1: The provincial government has extended the detention of doctor brothers Akmal Waheed and Arshad Waheed till March 31, Additional Advocate-General M. Ahmed Pirzada informed a division bench of the Sindh High Court on Tuesday.
The bench, which is seized of a petition challenging the detention order issued last month, adjourned the hearing at the AAG's request as Advocate-General Anwar Mansoor Khan, who had been arguing the government's brief, had gone abroad. The petition has been moved by Doctors Fauzia Akmal and Farzana Naz, wives of the detainees, and the bench consists of Justices Ataur Rahman and Zia Pervez.
The bench had allowed the petitioners' counsel, M. Ilyas Khan, to amend the previous petition reserved for order on Jan 25 as the impugned order had been superseded by another order.
He had also objected to the court's decision to watch a video film presented by the AG on the detainees' activities in chamber in his absence. The hearing was adjourned to March 17.
RESTRAINED: The Sindh High Court restrained a marriage hall operating on an amenity plot meant for school in the Jinnah Co-operative Housing society from holding or booking functions till March 23 when a suit instituted by a neighbourhood resident and advocacy group Shehri would come up for hearing.
Justice Mushir Alam, who heard the suit filed by Mrs Rashida Akbar and Shehri through Advocate M. Zahid Khan, also asked the SHC nazir or his deputy to visit the plot (SNPA 21-B) in blocks 7 and 8 of the Jinnah Society to ascertain whether it had been put to commercial use. The report would be submitted by the next date.
The plaintiffs' counsel contended that a catering firm was misusing the plot in complicity with the society's functionaries and a school management. Such conversion was not permissible under the Karachi Development Authority Order, he submitted and requested the court to grant an injunction against the marriage lawn owners. Issuing notices to the defendants, the court ordered that no function would be held or any commercial activity allowed on the site till the next date.
