Full court reference held for PHC outgoing CJ.

PESHAWAR -- Peshawar High Court outgoing Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan said here on Thursday that all stakeholders had to work together to resolve the political and economic instability in the country.

Addressing a full court reference on the occasion of his retirement, he said lawyers had to face all kinds of obstacles for the law in the country.

He also paid a tribute to former PHC chief justice late Waqar Ahmed Seth. He said Justice Seth contested 60 per cent of cases for the labourers free of cost when he was a lawyer.

Justice Khan said he was among the first lawyers who were arrested under Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance during the lawyers movement.

PHC acting Chief Justice Roohul Amin Khan, other judges, registrar PHC, Advocate General Amir Javed, KP Bar Council chairperson Zar Badshah and Peshawar High Court Bar Association president Rehmanullah and other...