WASHINGTON: The State Department on Monday is expected to announce the appointment of Washington lawyer Cliff Sloan to oversee the closure of the controversial Guantanamo detention camp, sources familiar with the decision said on Sunday.Sloan is a partner with the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, ...

NEW DELHI - A lawyer for one of the Indian cricketers accused of accepting tens of thousands of dollars for spot-fixing said Wednesday that police were seeking to tarnish her client's reputation. Rebecca John said police involved in the corruption probe were "deliberately planting leaks" in the ...

LAHORE - Gunmen killed a 26 year-old lawyer in the Defense Housing Authority (DHA) in a drive-by shooting and escaped instantly, police said on Wednesday. The deceased, identified as Zain Ghaffar, left his house on Wednesday morning when seven armed men intercepted his car in the Phase-IV ...

Anti-Terrorist Court Rawalpindi on Monday reserved its verdict on the interim bail for former army chief General (retd) Pervez Musharraf in the murder case of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.Musharraf’s counsel Barrister Salman Safdar contended before the ATC judge Chaudhry Habibur ...

SHEIKHUPURA - Awais Sheikh, lawyer of Indian terrorist Sarabjit Singh, was found in injured condition near Sheikhupura on Thursday.Police said that torture signs were found on the lawyer's body when he was found on Sheikhupura bypass.  Two men in police uniform intercepted the car of Awais ...

RAWALPINDI - Police have succeeded to solve the mystery of a blind murder and arrested two alleged killers of Supreme Court lawyer Chaudhry Muhammad Khan along with three others who hired the killers.Chaudhry Muhammad Khan was murdered on March 28, 2013 near Fauji Foundation Hospital on GT Road ...

RAWALPINDI - No letup in torture on legal fraternity as unknown culprits on Thursday kidnapped District Bar Association's former General Secretary Sardar Manzir Bashir, subjected him to severe torture and later threw him at Shahpur on Adyala Road.According to DBA General Secretary Malik Zaheer ...

WASHINGTON : As US drone warfare comes under increasing criticism in US, a former legal adviser to the State Department has sharply criticized the secrecy surrounding the Obama administration’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles for the targeted killing of terrorism suspects, saying it is ...

karachi - A lawyer and a cop among four people were gunned down here on Friday. A policeman of crime branch was shot dead in Awami Colony police remits.Police said that Orangzaib Khattak, resident of the same area, was posted in Crime Branch. He was standing near his residence when some gunmen ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Michael Jackson’s mother accused the promoter of his doomed final tour Monday of sacrificing the troubled star in a “ruthless” pursuit of profit in the months before his 2009 death.At the opening of a trial pitting Katherine Jackson against AEG Live, her lawyer ...

ISLAMABAD - The obviously hidden hands are hatching evil conspiracies to get former President Pervez Musharraf out of Pakistan or by putting him to harm through launching a life attempt on him only to create chaos and destabilise election process in the country.Advocate Chaudhry Muhammad Ashraf ...

BUREWALAThe Model Town Police registered cases against a lawyer and 11 others for occupying property owned by a late MPA's family and attacking policemen here the other day.Reportedly, Dr Nazir Ahmad Mithu Dogar's son Muhammad Ibrahim Dogar, daughters Noor Fatima and Noor Hir and legal heir ...

SUKKUR  – A District and Sessions Judge on Thursday ordered police to register a case against former Sindh chief minister Qaim Ali Shah, his daughter and others on behalf of a lawyer who was brutally tortured on Wednesday.Khairpur District Bar President Manzoor Hussain Ansari was beaten ...

Riyadh  - Saudi Arabia has registered its first female trainee advocate, paving the way for women to practise as lawyers in the kingdom where Islamic Shariah law applies, an activist said on Tuesday. “The road is open now to women to receive permits to practise as lawyers, after the ...

QUETTA - Chief Justice of Balochistan High Court has taken notice of kidnapping of former Balochistan Advocate General and prominent lawyer Salahudin Mengal, who was kidnapped by armed men on Thursday from Sariab Road of Quetta.Justice Qazi Faez Esa, taking notice of kidnapping of Salahudin Mengal, ...

LAHORE– A lawyer shot dead his teenage girlfriend at his office located in Mozang area as she insisted to marry with him, police said on Monday. The killer has been arrested and is being interrogated in connection with the killing. The girl, identified as Saira Bibi, 19, left her residence ...

QUETTA A lawyer was seriously wounded when he was ambushed in Khuzdar district of Balochistan on Tuesday. According to police, unidentified armed men opened fire on Qazi Jamil and managed to flee the scene. The wounded man was immediately taken to a hospital where his condition was said to be ...

The Rawalpindi Anti-Terrorism Court on Saturday adjourned the hearing of the petition against the seizure of the assets of former President Pervez Musharraf filed by his wife, Sehba Musharraf, to Nov 17.The petition, filed in response to the Benazir Bhutto assassination case, was heard by Justice ...

MANDI BAHAUDDIN - Phalia Bar Association Secretary Yasir has allegedly refused to pay money after the acquisition of a law chamber to the seller, who is the daughter of late Hafiz Jalandhri Advocate, and got a "fake case" registered against her husband.Tushaqil, the seller and a lecturer in a govt ...

faislabad - The judges in Faisalabad district courts stopped working on Saturday when an infuriated lawyer hurled shoe at a judge after he delivered the judgment in a case.According to details, Advocate Chaudhry Maqsood threw his shoe towards Additional Session Judge Asad Ali who gave verdict ...

FAISALABAD - A lawyer tortured a civil judge after the court rejected his client’s bail on Monday.According to eyewitnesses, lawyer Mohsin appeared before Civil Judge Azhar Ali Jaffari and sought the bail of an accused of robbery. He attacked the judge as the court turned down the bail plea. ...

LAHORE  - Former Ambassador Hussain Haqqani’s lawyer, Zahid Hussain Bukhari left for London on Tuesday to cross-examine Mansoor Ejaz, central character of Memogate scandal.    Talking to media persons before his departure, Zahid Hussain said that memogate is a fake scandal ...

LAHORE – The Race Course police found themselves in an odd position on Monday, when they tried to reach the heirs of Scottish lawyer Paul McBride (who was killed in a hotel here on Sunday) and were directed to another man with whom the deceased had contracted a homosexual marriage in ...

JAKARTA  - Suspected Indonesian bombmaker Umar Patek’s stay in the same Pakistani town where Osama bin Laden was later killed in a US raid was a coincidence and the pair never met, his lawyer said on Monday.Patek, 45, faces six counts of murder, bomb-making and illegal firearms ...

NEW YORK - The lawyer for Aafia Siddiqui Friday urged a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals to reverse her conviction and sentence to 86 years in prison, citing her mental illness and arguing that some of the evidences related to the case were questionable.Lawyers for the reversal of the ...

CAIRO - Civilian courts have no authority to hear corruption charges against ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak because he reverted to his former military rank when he quit, his defence lawyer Farid al-Deeb said on Thursday.Deeb cited a law adopted in 1979, during the presidency of Mubarak's ...

LAHORE – City police have begun investigations to probe into the killing of a senior lawyer, who was gunned down at his Gulshan-e-Ravi residence on Monday evening. Two unidentified gunmen killed 55-year-old Nasrullah Warraich, Advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan, at the doorstep of his house ...

LAHORE – Unidentified gunmen barged into the house of a senior lawyer here in Gulshan-e-Ravi area on Monday evening, shot him dead, and fled away within no time, police sources said. A senior police investigator disclosed to this reporter that Nasrullah Waraich, senior Advocate Supreme Court ...

KASUR - City police, booked a lawyer and three of his accomplices on Sunday for allegedly shooting and injuring a restaurant owner and ransacking the restaurant. According to FIR, on Saturday night, the son of Chaudhry Munir Ahmed, former DBA President, went to a restaurant at Ada Luliani and ...

LONDON (Agencies) - The lawyer of M Asif accused the player's former captain and fellow defendant at the alleged spot-fixing trial, Salman Butt, of "pressurising him" before he bowled his infamous no-ball at the Lord's Test last year. Earlier in the trial that is now into its tenth day, Aftab ...