PHC adjourns plea against five-decade-old notification on Chitral land settlement

Bureau Report - Dawn - 20/04
Asks counsel to argue the matter on May 12; 1975 notification declares Chitral region’s barren lands as Govt property.

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has adjourned the hearing into a petition challenging a 50-year-old notification of the provincial government declaring Chitral region’s all mountains, wastelands, jungles, pastures and riverbeds as its property.

A bench consisting of Justice Wiqar Ahmad and Justice Dr Khurshid Iqbal fixed May 12 for next hearing into the plea, directing the relevant parties to argue the m...
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