LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) has reserved judgment on the maintainability of the petition seeking creation of separate province of Bahawalpur .
The petition came up for hearing before a single bench of LHC presided over by Justice Shams Mehmood Mirza here Thursday.
The petitioner has made federal government and political parties respondents.
The petitioner took the plea that Bahawalpur was an independent state and people of Bahawalpur were provided protection. With the dissolution of state of Bahawalpur the people of Bahawalpur stand deprived of their fundamental rights. It is imperative that official status of state of Bahawalpur be restored besides issuing orders for creating separate province of Bahawalpur , the petition added.