Millers appeal IHC validation of sugar commission report.

ISLAMABAD -- The owners of sugar mills on Monday filed an intracourt appeal in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against its decision to validate the sugar commission report.

The Pakistan Sugar Mills AssociaAtion (PSMA) and the owners of sugar mills, including estranged leader of the Pakistan Thereek-i-Insaf (PTI) Jahangir Khan Tareen, his son Ali Khan Tareen, brother of federal minister Khusro Bakhtiar and a son of Leader of the Opposition in the NatiAoAnal Assembly Shahbaz Sharif, had chalAlenged the decision of IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah that held that the commission on sugar had been constituted in accordance with the law.

The IHC had issued a short order on June 21 declaring that 'the constitution of the Commission vide notification, dated 16.03.2020, read with notification, dated 25.03.2020 and pursuant thereto its proceedings and report, dated 21.05.2020 have not been found to be ultra vires of the Pakistan Commission of Inquiry Act, 2017 nor in violation of the fundamental rights of the petitioners'.

Argue the panel has exceeded its mandate

'The report, dated 21.05.2020 was...