PESHAWAR
\nA two-member bench of Peshawar High Court (PHC) comprising Justice Rooh Ul Amin and Justice Shakoor on Tuesday issued stay order on a writ petition of Mayor Peshawar Zubair Ali against decision of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government of handing over bus stands and major roads of the city to Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) from Provincial Metropolitan government.
\nPHC after initial hearing on the writ petition of Mayor Peshawar, United Municipal Workers\u2019 Union and All Pakistan Local government workers\u2019 federation accepted the petition and issued a stay order on the decision of the provincial government.
\nIt is to mention here that the provincial government in an unprecedented move placed all new and old bus terminals and major roads which were being run by the provincial metropolitan government, under PDA and deprived the latter from a major chunk of revenue.
\nThe decision of the KP government not only affected the local government but also deprived hundreds of its employees from salaries and pensions.
\nSenior Advocate Qazi Jawad Ehsan appeared before the two-member bench on behalf of Mayor Peshawar Zubair Ali and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PESHAWAR A two-member bench of Peshawar High Court (PHC) comprising Justice Rooh Ul Amin and Justice Shakoor on Tuesday issued stay order on a writ petition of Mayor Peshawar Zubair Ali against decision of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government of handing over bus stands and major roads of the city to Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) from Provincial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3502],"class_list":{"0":"post-295507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-peshawar","8":"tag-phc"},"yoast_head":"\n