Chief Justice calls on Majlis to hasten PG appointment
06 Feb 2014, 5:44 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
Chief Justice Ahmed Faiz has called on the parliament to hasten the appointment of a new prosecutor general (PG).
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the Drug Court’s development structure, the Chief Justice noted that parliament had been conducting extra sittings to conclude unfinished work, and that it was possible to appoint a PG during one of those sittings.
The Criminal Court decided in January that it would not accept any cases submitted by the PG’s Office, and that it would halt all existing cases as the PG position had been vacant for over 30 days.
Deputy Prosecutor General Hussein Shameem today said that he was yet to receive any response from the apex court regarding an appeal for assistance in the matter, made over two weeks ago.
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