PHC stops govt from appointing new EZDMC chief

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has stopped Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government from initiating the process to appoint the new chief executive officer of the KP Economic Zone Development and Management Company (EZDMC) until further orders.

A bench consisting of Justice Syed Arshad Ali and Justice Shahid Khan gave the government three days to file comments on a petition filed by former CEO of the company Javed Iqbal Khattak against his recent removal by the provincial cabinet.

It fixed Sept 12 for the next hearing into the petition.