GARAHI KHAN vs THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER AND COLLECTOR, KARACHI AND — 1971 PLD 676

Citation: 1971 PLD 676

Court: Sindh High Court

Year: 1970

Decision Date: 1970-12-31

Parties: GARAHI KHAN vs THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER AND COLLECTOR, KARACHI AND JUDGMENT

Headnotes

Case cited as PLD 1971 Karachi 676

Judgment Text

Court Name: Sindh High Court Judge(s): Ghulam Safdar Shah, Abdul Qadir Sheikh Title:GARAHI KHAN vs THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER AND COLLECTOR, KARACHI AND JUDGMENT Reported As: PLD 1971 Karachi 676 Result: Petition dismissed Judgment JUDGMENT GHULAM SAFDAR SHAH, J.--The 44 petitioners before us are Afghan nationals who call themselves Pawindas. Each one of them has filed separate petition against the order of respondent No, 1 dated 9-6-1969 by which they were informed that unless they obtained national passports from Afghan Embassy or naturalization certificates from the Government of Pakistan their applications for the renewal of money-lending licenses would not be considered. Since all the petitions involve common questions of law and facts they would be disposed of together by this order. 2. The case of the petitioners is that since time immemorial they have continued to reside in the territories of Pakistan doing money-lending business under licences issued by the authorities that when the licenses last issued to them in 1964 were about to expire they applied to respondent No, 1 for their renewal but in spite of many reminders given to him the said respondent failed to decide their applications ; that some of the applicants then filed a Civil Suit in the Court of III Civil Judge, First Class, Karachi for declaration that they were entitled to the renewal of their licenses and the same could not be cancelled except according to the provisions of section 5 of the West…

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