SUKKUR, July 13: A single bench of Sindh High Court, Sukkur circuit, consisting of Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, on Tuesday began hearing a petition against the holding of a jirga in Pano Aqil on July 4 to resolve a karo-kari dispute.

During the proceedings, TPO, Sukkur, Saqib Sultan, represented respondents Sardar Karam Ellahi Mahesar, SHO, Pano Aqil Rana Nasrullah, and DPO Ghulam Shabbir Shaikh.

Another respondent Sukkur District Nazim Syed Nasir Hussain Shah was represented by his lawyer Abdul Fatah Malik. Yet another respondent Sindh Minister for Auqaf, Zakat/Ushr and Religious/Minority Affairs Manzoor Panhwar neither attended the court nor sent a lawyer.

Lawyer Malik argued that the petition was not worthy of being taken up by the court, and sought time to file a written statement of his client. Advocate Ghulam Shabbir Shar, representing petitioner Imam Bux Bullo, pointed out that his opponent, Mr Malik, had taken a stand against the jirga system in the famous Shaista Almani case in the same court.

Mr Malik had said that jirga system was illegal but now he was favouring it, Mr Shar added. The SHC judge adjourned the hearing for July 20.

COURSE: A two-day course on Working Capital Financing to Cotton Ginners was recently conducted at the Muslim Commercial Bank Staff College, attended by some 15 executive officers.

The participants were told that the MCB was financing cotton research and quality improvement programmes throughout Pakistan, including Sindh, to make growers and ginners aware of quality. They were also told that the bank was making an additional investment of Rs15 billion in Sukkur, Larkana and Hyderabad.