KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday dismissed a plea by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNA Aamir Liaquat Hussain challenging the Sindh government’s decision to create Keamari district in Karachi Division.

A division bench of the SHC, headed by Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, turned down the petition by observing that the court cannot put the Sindh government on notice in the case until a notification regarding the formation of the Keamari district is submitted to it.

He said the court has to determine what unlawful act the provincial government has committed?

“Karachi used to be a district and then was divided into four districts. Malir district was carved out of it and Korangi was later given the status of a district and now Keamari has been declared the seventh district. We have to see what illegal act was committed,” the judge remarked.

When asked, the advocate-general told the bench that no notification regarding the formation of the Keamari district was issued yet.

The counsel for the petitioner said that the Sindh Assembly passed a bill in this regard on August 24.

The PTI MNA had moved the court against the decision of the Sindh government carving Keamari out of the district West of Karachi to make it a district.

Dr. Aamir Liaquat Hussain made the Sindh government and its departments respondents in the petition by praying the court to issue orders for the reversal of the decision to create a new district, namely, Keamari.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2020