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LHC dismisses plea against Nawaz’s photo on Kisan Card

On March 30, 2024 a citizen challenged the picture of PMLN supremo Nawaz Sharif on the government of Punjab’s Nawaz Sharif Kisan Card

By PPI
April 02, 2024
The Lahore High Courts (LHC) building in Lahore. — LHC website/File
The Lahore High Court's (LHC) building in Lahore. — LHC website/File 

LAHORE: Lahore High Court’s (LHC) Justice Shahid Karim on Monday dismissed petition of a citizen against printing of Nawaz Sharif’s image on the Kisan Card of the Punjab government.

The court was informed by the Punjab government’s lawyer that the plan for the Kisan Card with Nawaz Sharif’s picture has not been finalised yet. On this the lawyer of petitioner, Mashkoor Hussain, withdrew the petition against the government. Justice Shahid Karim dismissed the petition as withdrawn.

On March 30, 2024 a citizen challenged the picture of PMLN supremo Nawaz Sharif on the government of Punjab’s Nawaz Sharif Kisan Card. Making the Punjab government, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and former premier Nawaz Sharif respondents in the petition, Mashkoor Hussain sought the LHC’s order to declare the printing of Nawaz Sharif’s picture on the card null and void.

Around 10 days ago the same petitioner had requested the LHC to prohibit former prime minister Nawaz Sharif from presiding over Punjab cabinet’s administrative meetings and issuing directives to cabinet members and state officials despite the fact that he held no official position either in the provincial or the federal government.