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" THE INAUGURATION OF BUILDING OF MULTAN BENCH OF LAHORE HIGH COURT, MULTAN   Inaugural Address By   Mr. Justice Muhammad Haleem, Chief Justice of Pakistan [26‑11‑1988]     Esteemed Governor of Punjab Makhdoom Muhammad Sajjad Hussain Qureshi; Mr. Wasim Sajjad, Minister for Justice and Parliamentary Affairs; Mr. Aziz A. Munshi, Attorney‑General for Pakistan; Distinguished Brethren; Distinguished Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Azad Jammu and Kashmir; Distinguished Chief Justice Federal Shariat Court; Mr. Justice Abdul Shakurul Salam, Chief Justice, Lahore High Court; Distinguished Chief Justices of High Courts of Sind and Baluchistan, and Distinguished Judges of the High Courts of Lahore, Sind, Peshawar and Baluchistan; Mr. Muhammad Akram Sheikh, President of the High Court Bar Association, Multan; members of the High Court Bar Association, Multan; Ladies and Gentlemen!   It is with great pride and pleasure that I accepted the invitation of the Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court to inaugurate the Court House at Multan which is to house the permanent Bench of the Lahore High Court. It is a great stride towards bringing home justice to the people inhabiting the city of Multan and a vast area around it. It is a historical city where lived great many Muslim Saints and Mystics. It provided a thoroughfare to the travellers and the conquerors proceeding from North to Delhi and elsewhere and itself became a centre of great religious and political eminence. The city reported to have existed during the days of Hiuen Tsang, a Budhdhist tourist, who passed through the city in 741 A. D. He called it Mu‑lo‑san‑pu‑lu. Alberuni as far back as in the 11th Century called the city as Mula‑tans in one of his…