Peshawar Development Authority petitions SC to halt BRT probe.

PESHAWAR -- The Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) on Tuesday filed a petition in the Supreme Court, seeking the dismissal of Peshawar High Court's December 6 directives to the Federal Investigation Agency to complete its probe into the Peshawar Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) within 45 days.

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government spokesperson Ajmal Wazir defended the decision to go to court regarding the probe, saying that the provincial administration would answer all questions regarding the Peshawar BRT once the project had been completed.

"We are ready for an inquiry into the BRT, but the inquiry should be carried out once the project has been completed," he said after a meeting of the provincial cabinet in Peshawar earlier today.

"The work on the project had been halted due to elections, but has [since] resumed," he added.

A bench of the Peshawar High Court, headed by Chief Justice PHC Waqar Ahmad Seth, had earlier this month directed the FIA to complete the probe into the under-construction BRT project within 45 days.

The bench gave the order while adjudicating a slew of petitions filed against the project...

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