The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday sought the reply from the federal government about the provision of security of chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. A division bench of the SHC headed by Justice Iqbal Kalhoro ordered the federal government to submit the reply in a petition pertaining to provision of security to Bilawal in view of threats to him. Akhtar Hussain Advocate on behalf of Bilawal Bhutto submitted in the court that chairman PPP and Bilawal House are at the targets of terrorist outfits, posting security threats to him.

In the petition, counsel said that Benazir Bhutto was also assassinated in a terror act. The court inquired from the counsel about the nature of threats to Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, at which counsel replied that life of Bilawal is at the target of various terrorist organizations.

He also told the court that Bilawal House is also under threat and said that even Sindh Government also admitted that Bilawal Bhutto faced serious security threats. The court seeking the reply from the federal government about the threats to life of PPP chairman put off the hearing of the case for indefinite period. Meanwhile, a division bench of SHC ordered that encroachment should not be allowed to be established in the parks and also ruled that stay order on illegal constructions in the parks would remain in place.

A division bench gave these orders in a petition, filed by former City Nazim Naimatullah Khan, who submitted that a political party has illegally occupied the parks in the city. He sought the court orders to remove these offices by opening these parks for citizens. The court ordered both parties to appear with arguments in the next hearing of the case, which would be held after two weeks.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019