Islamabad: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa on Wednesday remarked that army should do its own work and courts will do their job.
While hearing of a petition filed against commercial activity being done on military land, the CJP observed that the army was conducting business and had set up marriage halls on military lands.
The court also sought assurance from the attorney general that the army would only work on defence-related matters and not run any business.
“Can you get this assurance?” CJP Isa asked the attorney general.
In response, AGP Mansoor Usman Awan stated that as per principle, everyone should do their job.
However, CJP Isa insisted that if the AGP had the directives then he should give the assurance to the court.
Counsel for the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) said that the building which was the bone of contention belonged to the Board. He informed that the allottees got the property registered in their names on forged documents and then sold it. “Now a five-storey building has been built on that plot.”
The CJP was of the view that illegal construction of buildings was not possible without the support of the Sindh Building Control Authority officials. “There is a need to check the assets of these officials,” the court remarked.
