LAHORE, March 1: Increase in petroleum prices has been challenged before the Lahore High Court (LHC) through a civil miscellaneous application filed into an already pending main writ petition on the matter.
Advocate Mateenul Haq Chaudhry filed the application submitting that the notification regarding increase in POL prices by the federal government was unlawful, ineffective, ultra vires over the rights of citizens of Pakistan.
The petitioner said though a writ petition regarding increase of oil and petroleum lubricants was before the court, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority and the federal government were going to implement the impugned notification about increase in POL prices by approximately 9.9 per cent.
He said the act of the respondents would impact the already crushed and downtrodden people of Pakistan.
NOC: The LHC registrar office has put a procedural objection on a petition challenging the requirement of no objection certificates (NOCs) before traveling abroad and asked the petitioner to affix impugned notification issued by the Interior Ministry in this regard.
Advocate Noshab A Khan challenged the requirement NOCs saying that the impugned decision by the ministry was a gross infringement of civil liberties.
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