The people of Pakistan have given a clear cut mandate to PML-N and there is no ambiguity as to what is required now to bring Pakistan back to its old glory. PPP and its coalition partners especially the ANP have suffered a humiliating rejection from across the country. The ANP has been wiped out ...

ISLAMABAD The Supreme Court heard the appeals against Lahore High Court judgement that has declared Section 15 of the Financial Institutions Recoveries of Loans Ordinance 2001, as ultra vires.Akram Sheikh, representing more than 65 appellants, including the National Bank of Pakistan and certain ...

KARACHI - The independent panel holding the hearing of Pakistani Test leg-spinner Danish Kaneria's appeal against the life ban imposed on him by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is expected to give its verdict on the case today (Friday )in London.Sources aware of the case said the four-day ...

lahorePML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday called for implementation of the Supreme Court verdict in connection with voting rights to overseas Pakistanis.“Overseas Pakistanis, who send billions of dollars in remittances each year, are our major asset,” the former PM told a delegation ...

LAHORE - Punjab Governor Makhdum Ahmad Mehmud on Thursday said that every body should respect the judiciary and its decisions. “The PPP has sacrificed its prime minister only to show obedience to the Supreme Court verdict”, he said while taking to reporters after addressing the ...

NEW DELHI- India’s Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for the execution of a Sikh militant, rejecting his appeal in a ruling that could lead to more death sentences being carried out. Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar from northwestern Punjab, who was convicted over a New Delhi car bombing that ...

RAWALPINDI - Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) filed an appeal with Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench on Monday challenging the verdict of a trial court for not separating the trial of military dictator and former President General (retd) Pervez Musharraf, an accused and Proclaimed Offender ...

ISLAMABAD - Former Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf Friday filed an Intra-Court Appeal (ICA) before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the March 28 verdict of the court which put a question regarding his qualification to become a member of the parliament of Pakistan.In the ICA, former premier ...

ISLAMABAD – Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who has been heading a three-judge Supreme Court bench in the Gun and Country Club case, is among 495 influential people, including Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, who are members of this elite sporting club.According to the ...

It is probably symptomatic that the counsel for a political party made his main argument in the case of the delimitations ordered in Karachi the locus standi of the petitioners, not the reason advanced by the Supreme Court for ordering a fresh verification of voters by the Election Commission, ...

RAWALPINDI - The Lahore High Court's Rawalpindi bench on Monday reserved its judgment on petitions seeking quashing of three corruption references prepared by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif and his family members.The division bench ...

ISLAMABAD - Bahria Town on Tuesday filed intra court appeal challenging the IHC verdict in favour of Shoaib Suddle Commission in Islamabad High Court (IHC). The country’s renowned legal expert Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan filed intra court appeal on behalf of Bahria Town stating that that Shoaib ...

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday reserved the decision on a plea to dismiss case against Rimsha Masih. Chief Justice IHC Iqbal Hamid Khan heard the plea for dismissal of the case against Rimsha Masih. Attorney for Rimsha argued that the allegations against the accused were baseless and ...

The reactions to the Supreme Court’s verdict in the Asghar Khan case continued, with former COAS Gen (retd) Mirza Aslam Beg saying that he should be tried under military rules for violating the Constitution, and there should not be what he called a ‘media trial’ of military ...

The Supreme Court’s verdict in the Asghar Khan case continued, with former COAS Gen (retd) Mirza Aslam Beg saying that he should be tried under military rules for violating the Constitution, and there should not be what he called a ‘media trial’ of military officials. However, on ...

ISLAMABAD – The district and sessions court on Wednesday reserved the judgement on the post-arrest bail application of Khalid Jadoon, the prayer leader of Mehra Jaffer Mosque who had been accused of altering the evidence against blasphemy accused Rimsha Masih.The judge would issue a ruling on ...

RAWALPINDI – A trial court reserved its verdict on the application of an accused in Haj corruption case here on Friday.Special Judge Central, Muhammad Ahmed Farooqi, reserved its decision on the application filed by former Director General Haj Rao Shakeel Ahmed to defreeze his salary account ...

ISLAMABAD - The directives of the Sindh High Court to hold LB elections in the province may ignite a tussle between the ruling PPP and MQM, as the PPP is in favour of the magistracy system.The debate over the local bodies has been very much in between the two partners, as MQM is strictly adhering ...

LAHORE - It seems that Supreme Court’s verdict against re-employment of government employees after their retirement, has not yet reached the Water and Sanitation Agency, whose big bosses are all set to re-employ one of their favourite directors in BS-19, who is going to retire on December 30, ...

LAHORE Though the Supreme Court verdict on the Karachi suo moto case is apparently much milder than expected, many jurists foresee likelihood of the government being getting into trouble if the courts directions are not carried out in letter and spirit. The law experts say that the decision sets ...

KARACHI - Afsar Khan, one of the convicts of the murder of Sarfraz Shah, on Tuesday, moved the Sindh High Court (SHC) against the anti-terrorism court's verdict. In his application, Afsar Khan, through his counsel Advocate Amir Waraich, prayed to the high court to set aside the ruling of the ATC ...

CHICAGO (AFP) - US jurors began deliberations Wednesday in the case of a Pakistan-born Chicago businessman accused of helping to plot the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks. Rana, a 50-year-old Canadian citizen, is charged with providing material support to terrorists by acting as a messenger and providing ...

ISLAMABAD - The Senate was informed on Thursday that the detailed judgment of the Supreme Court that overturned the parliamentary committees decision of rejecting extension to services of six additional high court judges would be placed before both the houses of the Parliament for ...

ISLAMABAD - Islamabad High Court (IHC) Thursday dismissed the petition filed by the federal government against anti-terrorism court verdict setting free an accused of Aabpara blast, Mohammad Ilyas. The bail petitions of the accused involved in the misappropriation in relief goods for Hunza Lake ...

PESHAWAR - A local court Friday reserved judgement on the bail plea of US national Aaron Mark DeHaven till March 7. He has submitted his bail application in the court of Additional Sessions Judge Altaf-ur-Rehman. In the bail application, the court was told that working visa of Aaron Mark DeHaven ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) is divided over the apex court's decision for initiating proceedings against PCO judges by framing contempt charges against them from February 21. President SCBA Asma Jahangir, while talking to the media in Lahore on Wednesday had termed the ...

LAHORE President Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Asma Jahangir Wednesday termed the notices issued by the Supreme Court to the judges on the contempt of court charges unreasonable and said the act was tantamount to inflicting harm to its own status. Addressing a news conference in the ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved judgement on the appeal of Justice (Retd) Abdul Hameed Dogar that the bench was not competent to conduct the hearing of the case. A four-member bench headed by Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui and comprising Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Tariq ...

ISLAMABAD - A petitioner, who had challenged the Women Protection Act 2006 in the Federal Shariat Court, has decided to move the Supreme Court against the FSC's December 21, 2010 judgment tomorrow. Aslam Ghumman, Senior Advocate Supreme Court has informed The Nation, "I would move against the FSC ...

Our Monitoring Desk The Sunni Central Waqf Board Tuesday moved the Indian Supreme court against the order of the Allahabad High Court in Babri Masjid case, raising several issues against the verdict, including that it relied heavily on belief. We have sought to draw the Supreme Courts attention to ...