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LAHORE: After a preliminary hearing of the petition against Sherry Rehman’s nomination as Pakistan’s ambassador to the US, Lahore High Court’s Justice Khalid Mahmood on Friday forwarded the plea to LHC’s chief justice, FTNews reported.
During the initial hearing, Justice Mahmood said another petition against Ms Rehman’s disqualification was pending with LHC’s Justice Nasir Saeed Sheikh. Therefore, the recent petition was being sent to LHC Chief Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed so that all pending cases against Ms Rehman could be put together, Justice Mahmood said.
Earlier on Thursday, petitioner Mohammad Azhar Siddique Advocate had stated that Ms Rehman had not resigned from her membership of the National Assembly which was why she could not be appointed to any government post.
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