The Punjab government on Saturday removed five additional advocate generals and 24 assistant advocate generals from their posts.

Through a notification, the Punjab government has informed the Supreme Court, Lahore High Court and other institutions about removal of the law officers.

According to the notification, Gulzar Ahmed Khan, Malik Sarwar Ahmed, Parvez Iqbal Cheema, Muhammad Nawaz Shah and Arif Ranjha have been removed from the post of additional advocate general.

Besides, 24 people including assistant advocate generals Punjab Shahid Mehmood, Mohammad Akram, Syed Ali Riaz, Asad Abbas, and Zonaish Afzal have been shown the door.

Assistant advocate generals Aamir Umar, Hafeezur Rahman, Mirza Kamran Baig, Asif Butt, Umar Rashid, Khurram Shehzad, Noman Sarwar, Malik Abdul Razak, Naveed Ahmad Raja, Iftikhar Ibrahim, and Wajid Rizvi have also been removed from the post.

According to the notification, Mushtaq Ahmed, Muhammad Saleem, Mehnaz Nadeem, Sajjad Iqbal, Tehreem Iqbal, Sheeba Qaiser, Azmat Ali Khanzada and Irfan Arif Sheikh also face the axe.