TOBA TEK SINGHArmed dacoits looted Pirmahal branch of the National Saving Centre (NSC) and deprived citizens of cash and other valuables in separate strikes here the other day.As per detail, four dacoits came to the NSC Pirmahal branch on two motorcycles. Three of them entered the branch and the ...

PARIS - Serena Williams won her second French Open title on Saturday, 11 years after her first triumph, defeating title-holder Maria Sharapova 6-4, 6-4 in a brief, but high-quality final. It was the 31-year-old American's 16th Grand Slam title win, taking her to within two of Chris Evert and ...

A petition has been filed in Supreme Court of Pakistan against alleged riggings in recent general elections.Advocate Tariq Asad has filed the petition under Article-184-C of the Constitution, against the Election Commission of Pakistan, NADRA and TV anchor persons.The petitioner has requested ...

Alia Brahimi Since its inception in February, a hunger strike has gained momentum in the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, now involving between 40 and 130 prisoners, out of a population of 166. Only three detainees have ever been convicted of any crime. In fact, more than half of the ...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday constituted a three-member bench to hear treason charges against the former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf.The three-member bench will be headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry. The court will hear the case on Monday.The ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court has sought a reply from the Foreign Office on Friday (today) over the issue of recalling the Pakistani diplomat in Switzerland in clear violation of its judgment in the Anita Turab case that ensured tenure protection to public servants, it emerged on Thursday. Hasnain ...

MELBOURNE  - World number one Novak Djokovic wore down Andy Murray in an attritional four-set final to clinch a historic hat-trick of Australian Open titles and reaffirm his tennis supremacy on Sunday. The Serbian world number one lost the opening set in a tiebreaker but got progressively ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a set of pleas seeking a review of its earlier order of rejecting appeals of a number of former army officers against their convictions by a Field General Court Marshal (FGCM) for staging a coup to overthrow a PPP government led by late leader ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Monday declared illegal, null and void the Chaghai Hills Exploration Joint Venture Agreement (CHEJVA), ruling that it ran counter to the country’s mineral development act and mining concession rules.Handing down its judgement in the Reko Diq mining lease case, ...

The Supreme Court on Monday declared the Reko Diq agreement void and in conflict with the country’s laws.In its ruling, a three-judge bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, stated that the agreement reached on July 23, 1993 was in conflict with the laws ...

ISLAMABAD – Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Tuesday took suo moto notice of the murder of twenty-years-old Shahzeb Khan, asking the Sindh advocate general and IGP to appear in court on Friday and submit a detail report on the matter.The notice issued by the apex court ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the government to issue notifications for the appointment of Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui as a permanent judge and Noor-ul-Haq N Qureshi as an additional judge of the Islamabad High Court with effect from the date of expiry of earlier notifications of their ...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday issued contempt of court notice to the chief of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Altaf Hussain.According to the media reports, the contempt notice was issued during the hearing of case pertaining to Karachi unrest case.The court said that Altaf Hussain used ...

ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court on Wednesday, while rejecting a plea by CNG station owners for a hike in gas price, called details from the OGRA regarding the actions taken each year against filling stations for not complying with the terms and conditions as prescribed in their licences or in ...

ISLAMABAD - Several important cases are pending in the Supreme Court of Pakistan against different political parties and individuals including one case against Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif seeking his disqualification from the assembly seat and three cases filed by Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...

ISLAMABAD - Taking notice of PML-Q Parliamentary Leader in the National Assembly Makhdoom Faisal Salah Hayat’s letter regarding the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) underhand deal with Turkish Rental Power - Karkey - to sabotage the recovery of billions of rupees, the Supreme ...

ISLAMABAD  - The Supreme Court (SC) has been moved against Chairman of Senate Nayyar Hussain Bokhari and Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik on non- implementation of court verdict in dual nationality case. A petition was filed in the Supreme Court by Mehmood Akhtar Naqvi on Monday in ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court Thursday said it had received another list of purportedly dual national parliamentarians belonging to PPP and MQM, while the interior minister, taking a U-turn on his media statements, told the court he has ‘no credible information’ about the dual national ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday hearing implementation of Rental Power Projects judgement ordered the National Accountability Bureau to submit all inquiry files of all those against whom the NAB started investigation.A three-judge bench led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, ...

ISLAMABAD  - Each day, the chief justice of Pakistan at Supreme Court confronts a stack of blue folders stuffed with desperate pleas from residents claiming that corrupt police, inept prosecutors or moribund lower courts have failed them.The files detail heinous crimes, of newlyweds axed to ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Monday reserved judgment on whether Attorney General (AG) Irfan Qadir should act as a prosecutor in Malik Riaz contempt of court case following the disclosure that he had remained a lawyer of the business tycoon.A two-member bench comprising Justice Ejaz Afzal and ...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday asked the Punjab government to resolve teachers’ salary issue till Aug 15.Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudry, while hearing teachers’ salary case, directed Punjab’s Chief Secretary to convene a meeting of the Board of Governors of the ...

LONDON - Prominent politician and lawyer Senator Aitzaz Ahsan has said judiciary in Pakistan, in some matters, is going beyond the Constitution and overstepping its limits. Judicial activism of Supreme Court is partial and not equal in all affairs. In an interview with BBC, Aitzaz Ahsan said ...

islamabad : Supreme Court of Pakistan has become the member of Association of Asian Constitutional Courts and Equivalent Institutions (AACC). According to a press release issued here on Wednesday, the members of AACC in its meeting of May 2012 held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, have unanimously ...

A three member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Wednesday concluded the Kohistan killings case stating that the girls in question have been found alive and the claim of the killings was false.According to a private TV channel, the court stated that ...

Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday disqualified syed Yousuf Raza Gilani as prime minister in a stunning move throwing the country into fresh turmoil just months before expected general elections.A three-member Bench of the Supreme Court made the move after it had sentenced and convicted Gilani on ...

ISLAMABAD - Disposing of the suo moto case of Dr Arsalan Iftikhar, the Supreme Court Thursday asked Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) Irfan Qadir to take required action against real estate tycoon Malik Riaz Hussain, his son-in-law Salman Ali Khan and the chief justice’s son Dr Arsalan ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to take action against those who were protecting Zain Sukhera in the Haj scam.A two-member bench of Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan and Justice Jawwad S Khawaja resumed suo moto hearing regarding corruption in Haj ...

ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Tuesday, while hearing the electoral rolls case, observed they would not allow anyone or institution to flout the court orders.Expressing grave concerns over a news item published in an English daily, which reported the Election Commission of ...

NEW DELHI - India’s Supreme Court on Monday ordered the government to implement an ambitious project to link major rivers in the region ‘in a time-bound manner’. The court also appointed a committee to plan and implement the project.The over $100 billion project was to link around ...