IHC to take up sugarcane farmers' petition today.

ISLAMABAD -- The Islamabad High Court (IHC) will Monday (today) take up a petition filed by sugarcane farmers in a matter related to a report of Sugar Inquiry Commission which was challenged and stayed by the same court.

A single bench of IHC comprising Chief Justice of IHC Justice AtharMinallah will conduct hearing of the farmers' petition filed by sugarcane farmer AhsanAbidRaees from Rahim Yar Khan.

In their petition, the farmers have requested the court to be made party to the sugar inquiry commission case in the IHC. The petition stated that the farmers who have been most targeted by the sugar mafia should also be heard in the court. They adopted in the petition that the sugar mafia infringed on the rights of the petitioner, and that the mafia's actions were in violation of rights preserved by Article 25 of the Constitution of Pakistan.

Previously, the same IHC bench issued an interim stay order and temporarily restricted the government from acting on the recommendations of the sugar inquiry commission report. Mill owners were directed to fix the price of sugar at Rs70 per kilogramme during this time, and...