In the general election 2013, Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf has emerged as a third-force in the politics of the country. These results were against the prediction and expectation of analysts and thinkers. People were expecting a hung parliament but now PML-N individually has the power to make government ...

our staff reportersadiqabad - Addressing a reception arranged by the Sadiqabad Bar Association, the Rahim Yar Khan district and sessions judge linked provision of justice for the people to cooperation between the bar and the bench and advised both the institutions to adopt collective vision for ...

ISLAMABAD - Annual elections of Islamabad High Court (IHC) Bar Association will be held Saturday (today). Polling will continue from 8 a.m to 4 p.m and as many as 1382 lawyers including 150 women lawyers will cast their votes. Haroon and Ghulam Mehboob are contesting for the office of president of ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) leader Ahsan Iqbal Friday submitted an application before the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to bar former president Pervez Musharaf from contesting the elections from any constituency in Pakistan.Ahsan Iqbal maintained in the application that ...

KARACHI  - Former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf, who returned to the country this week to participate in the May 11 polls, was on Friday barred from leaving the country by Sindh High Court where an angry lawyer hurled a shoe at him.A single member bench of the SHC, however, ...

Chief Justice Supreme Court Iftikhar Muhammaad Chaudhary has said that without the active participation of bar, the goal of speedy justice cannot be fulfilled.He was talking to a 13-member delegation of Supreme Court Bar Association, AJ&K headed by its President Raja Fazal Hussain Rubani, which ...

PESHAWAR - To condemn Quetta carnage and show solidarity with its victims, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council Sunday announced to boycott courts and observe ‘Mourn Day’ (Today) on Monday.The painful incident in Quetta was strongly condemned. To show solidarity with grieved families of the ...

VEHARI - Lahore High Court Judge Justice Aminuddin Khan said that Bar and Bench were interconnected and dispensation of justice impossible without the smooth functioning and harmony between both these inseparable organs of the judiciary. If there is no interaction between the judge and lawyer there ...

ARIFWALA - Former Tehsil Bar Association Arifwala President Rana Ayaz Rasool passed away here the other day. His funeral was offered at village 19/EB. A large number of people from all walks of life attended the funeral. MNA Rana Zahid Hussain, MPA Dr Farrukh Javed, former MNA and ...

ISLAMABAD - Families and youngsters on second and third day of Eid thronged the public parks, openair places and hillsides to celebrate Eid with Bar B Cue parties that filled the air with smoked aroma of grilled foods. Bar B Que parties through family and friend get-togethers are considered as a ...

LAHORE  - President of the Lahore High Court Bar Association Shehram Sarwar on Sunday urged the Federal Government to appoint Chairman of the Federal Services Tribunal immediately as thousands of service matter cases are pending across the country.He said that the post of chairman had been ...

LAHORE – Mindful of the fact that the “ruthless” Young Doctors’ Association put a number of patients to the sword and denied treatment to scores of others at public hospitals across the province all these days, the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) on Tuesday threw ...

QUAIDABAD - The Bar and Bench are the two integral parts of the justice dispensation system and only their effective role can ensure timely justice.The bar is like an academy where lawyers learn how to unfurl the mysteries and complications of disputes and where they get groomed to be enabled to ...

RAJANPUR - The cooperation between the Bench and Bar has always been exemplary here in the district. The views were expressed by District and Sessions Judge Ch Abdur Rashid Abid while speaking at a welcome party held in his honour arranged by the DBA here the other day. He pledged that he along ...

LAHORE – The Lahore High Court Bar Association, through a resolution on Wednesday, accused the Judicial Commission of Pakistan of making appointments of judges “beyond the merit and on favouritism.” The bar members also expressed their serious concerns over the functioning of the ...

QUAIDABAD - The Punjab Bar Council Executive Committee has declared that Malik Khalid Mahmood Uttra will act as president and Muhammad Akram Niazi as secretary of the Tehsil Bar Association Quaidabad till the next elections.According to the notification of the PbBC Executive committee, comprised of ...

ADHIKOT - Noorpur Thal Press Club Vice President M. Ghulam Shabbir, Mehr Zavar Ahmed Akhtar, Raja Noor Ilahi Atif, Ghulam Jillani, Muhammad Mumtaz Jaura and representatives from public and social circles including Ulfat Hussain Naz, Muhammad Sarfaraz and Ishtiaq Ahmed have felicitated newly-elected ...

PATTOKI - Chaudhry Zakir Hanif was elected President Tehsil Bar Association Pattoki year 2012. He got 177 votes while his opponent Ch Hamid Mehmood got only 170 votes. Sheikh Shahzad Imtiaz got 181 votes while his opponent Sufdar Naeem Jutt got 168 votes for Vice President. Mudassar Naeem Bhatti ...

ARIFWALA - The Bar Association Arifwala observed a daylong strike and boycotted the courts against the misbehaviour of the THQ Hospital Doctors and paramedical staff with a lawyer Amer Shabeer and registration of a false case against him.          ...

A builder, who suffered a fall on a construction site, is lucky to be alive after a steel bar penetrated his jaw and bedded 15 centimetres into his skull. Wu Moude had been working on the construction site, in Quanzhou, southern Chinas Fujian Province, for just two months when the accident ...

CHANGA MANGA Senior lawyer of Chunian Bar Association, Muhammad Siam Ch, will reaching Lahore Airport after obtaining England Enrolment and Practice Certificate. Chunian Bar Association members Sheikh Yasir Ammar, Rana Shamshad, Shaukat Ali, Ziaul Haq along with lawyers of Action Mohaz Bar ...

LAHORE Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) on Friday unanimously carried two resolutions against the manhandling of the senior lawyer Raza Kazim and his associates by the owners of a private TV channel in the Supreme Court premises on March 1 when they were on their way back after appearance ...

LAHORE In an interesting development in the case against the dual office of President Asif Ali Zardari, an advocate has moved an application to question the locus standi of the petitioner to lead this question to the court accusing him of violating the Punjab Bar Council Rules to move this plea ...

LAHORE The Punjab Bar Council on Thursday opposed the ad hoc appointments of Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramady for one year and Justice Rehmat Hussain Jafferi for two years as the judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, terming the same favoritism. Vice Chairman Ch Lehrasib Khan Gondal told a press ...

LAHORE The Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal has said that there is no restriction on the local exporters from the Indian government to stop the shipments of cotton to Pakistan, as it is a matter of the buyer and seller to settle the price issue. Sharat Sabharwal told this to Dr Mirza ...

LAHORE - The Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muham-mad Chaudhry has said that Bar and the Bench are part of the judiciary administration. Talking to the members of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) after inaugurating the Iftikhar Hall of the SCBA in the Supreme Court building here on ...

LAHORE - In a letter to the registrar of Lahore High Court, the District Bar Association Rawalpindi has painted a deplorable picture of some lawyers of the District Bar Association Lahore who showed 'disrespect to District & Sessions Judge Lahore Sheikh Zawar Ahmad in his court. Later, through ...

LAHORE - Mian Abdul Quddus of Hamid Khans Professional Group has been elected as President Lahore High Court Bar Association for the term 2010-11. In the annual elections of Lahore High Court Bar Association held here on Saturday Mian Quddus secured 3,091 votes while his main opponent Khawaja ...

LAHORE - Lawyers of the Lahore High Court predict a cutthroat contest between Mian Abdul Qaddus and Khawaja Mehmood Ahmed for the slot of LHCBA President in the bars annual elections 2010 scheduled to be held tomorrow (Saturday). The PML-N is a new factor in the 2010 polls of the Lahore High Court ...

LAHORE - Lawyers backed by Hamid Khan, head of powerful Professional Group, Friday thrashed President Lahore High Court Bar Association Munawwar Iqbal Gondal and his supporters and occupied the office after forcing him out in a military-like coup they launched after the general house ...