Islamabad (January 20, 2018): The senators related to the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has filed a petition in Islamabad High Court (IHC) for the urgent hearing of the case against governor State Bank of Pakistan Tariq Bajwa, whose appointment was challenged by the PPP senators including Farhatullah Babar, Saleem Mandiwala, Farooq H Nike and others.
The petition requested the court to direct the respondents for submission of report within a month. It mentioned that court had summoned the report in a month in his order in November 2017, however after the passage of two months respondents have not submitted their reply in the court, therefore court should scheduled the cases on urgent basis so that provision of justice could be made certain.The secretary finance and governor state bank arethe respondent in the case.
Tariq Bajwa was appointed as Governor State Bank in July 2017, howeve few months later PPP has challenged his appointment in Islamabad High Court.
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