Case Details

Citation(s)
2025 SLG 4194 2025 SLD 4194 = 2025 CLC 983
Lahore High Court
W.P. No. 22092 of 2025, decided on 23rd April, 2025.
Before Muhammad Sajid Mehmood Sethi, J
Mufariq Shah for Petitioner. Muhammad Zain Qazi, Assistant Attorney General along with Sheikh Akhtar Hussain, Deputy Assistant Director, Ministry of Religious Affairs, Directorate of Hajj, Lahore for
Respondents.

FAISAL IRSHAD ---Petitioner

VERSUS

FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony, Islamabad and another ---Respondents

Law: Constitution of Pakistan, 1973

Section: 199

Law: Rules of Business, 1973

Section:

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