Pakistan, March 16 -- The Supreme Court, on Friday, slammed the Punjab government for failure to regularise encroachments upon a girls school in Gujranwala.

A three-member bench heard the case where Justice Qazi Faez Essa asked the chief secretary if he could resolve any problem other than making big claims on media every day. He then reproached the government for failing to provide land for the school.

The SC judge remarked, "(If) a chief secretary could not resolve a minor problem, how is he running a province?"

He further questioned, "Thirteen years were not enough for you to resolve the matter?"

Justice Gulzar observed that a meaningless paper had been submitted to the court.

He added, "The court will be compelled to take a decis...