SC seeks new AGP's details as officials clueless about appointment.

ISLAMABAD -- The Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan on Wednesday called into question the official status of the new attorney-general for Pakistan (AGP) after his office failed to assist the apex court in a property-related case.

Taking notice of the appointment of the new and the resignation of the last AGP, a two-member bench of the SC - headed by Justice Qazi Faez Isa - took up the case.

The court summoned the secretary of law to the next hearing and ordered him to bring all the documents related to the new attorney general's appointment and the former's resignation.

During the hearing, the judge commented that "the office of Mansoor Awan, the new AGP, has not been properly providing assistance to the court in cases for which it seeks a explanation".

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