Justice Bhatti to serve as LHC chief justice for 32 months
July 8, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The new Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court (LHC), Muhammad Ameer Bhatti, will hold the top slot for 32 months unless he is elevated to the Supreme Court before his retirement.
He will be superannuated on March 7, 2024 after attaining the constitutional retirement age for high court judges of 62. If he is elevated to the apex court before his retirement, he will have three additional years.
Following Justice Bhatti’s elevation as the LHC chief justice, Justice Malik Shahzad Ahmad Khan has become the puisne judge. He will become the LHC head after the retirement of Justice Bhatti and will serve till March 14, 2025. Justice Shujaat Ali Khan is now at number three of the seniority list of LHC judges.
Students from transgender community attend first day of school in Multan
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Roundtable Discussion on Food Security vis-à-vis Sustainable Agriculture in Pakistan: Policy Outcomes and Prospects
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July 6, 2021
ISLAMABAD: For the first time ever in Pakistan, the government of Punjab has initiated a ‘Transeducation’ pilot project for imparting education to the transgender community, and the project is expected to be launched on July 7.
The Education Department, south Punjab, Government of the Punjab, has decided to attend to this hitherto important yet ignored issue. Transeducation is being launched in Multan, whereby transgenders would be given formal education in evening classes at public sector schools by resorting to the Accelerated Learning Programme to compensate for the lost schooling in the first phase, and to formal schooling in the second. And gradually transgenders would be shifted to regular and age-appropriates classes/ schools. Efforts are being put in place as transgenders are one of the most marginalised segments of society in Pakistan. They are shunned by their own families and are left with no loved-ones from the day they are born. They have to face phys