PTI leader Jahangir Khan Tareen on Wednesday withdrew his petition from the Lahore High Court challenging transfer of administrative control of five regulatory bodies to their respective ministries. Earlier, the counsel of Tareen appeared before the court and sought permission to withdraw the petition which was allowed.
The court however directed a deputy attorney general to appear before the court on July 14 in a similar petition with instructions from the secretary establishment that whether the impugned notification putting the autonomous bodies under the control of respective ministries had been withdrawn or the present regime wanted to pursue the previous policy.
The court in February 2017 had suspended the impugned notification issued by the PML-N's government in December 2016 that placed the control of National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra), Oil & Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra), Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (Pepra) and Frequency Allocation Board (FAB) under their respective ministries.
The other petition was filed by a citizen Ali Irfan through his counsel Sheraz Zaka who pleaded that an approval from the Council of Common Interest (CCI) was mandatory under the constitution for transferring the control of the autonomous regulatory bodies to the ministries. The counsel stated that the Supreme Court in its judgments also declared approval by the CCI a mandatory provision for the purpose.
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