Islamabad: According to a news report, Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib heard a suo-moto case on 26th February 2018 related to conversion of 1,250 acres of National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) into a housing society.
On 2 September, 2015, the then CJP Jawwad S. Khawaja took a suo motu notice of the issue of conversion of NARC land into a housing society. This was taken on the application of President Pakistan Agricultural Research Council Scientists Association (PARSCA) Muhammad Altaf Sher and other officers and employees of Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC).
CDA wants to convert this land into a housing society, and had prior to this, moved a summary for approval of this conversion. Advocate Naib Gardezi, representing the Federal Government, had informed that the summary was under consideration but that it was unlikely to be approved.
