ISLAMABAD - A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday to direct the Federation to stop drone attacks, which have killed hundreds of innocent people in FATA/Waziristan.Mado Jan, a resident of South Waziristan Agency, in person filed the petition under Article 184(3) of ...

ISLAMABAD  - The Supreme Court has been moved on Monday to array incumbent Federal Law and Justice Minister, Zahid Hamid, among the collaborators and abettors who aided Pervez Musharraf for imposing Emergency on 3rd November 2007 and subsequent unconstitutional and unlawful acts.Sheikh ...

ISLAMABAD  - A writ petition challenging some 116 appointments in Ministry of Foreign Affairs on political basis and on the directives of former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar has been filed in the Islamabad High Court (IHC). IHC judge Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui will take up the case ...

Lahore - A writ petition was filed on Friday in the Supreme Court Lahore Registry, seeking a judicial inquiry into the plane hijack case against PML-N chief and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. The petition was filed by a local citizen, Najma Ahmad, wherein she submitted that on October 10, ...

LahoreThe Lahore High Court has been requested to initiate legal proceedings against Altaf Hussain for uttering words against the ideology of Pakistan in his speech of May 12, and cancel his leadership of Muttahida Qaumi Movement being not a Pakistani national. Hussain on May 12 threatened the ...

        ISLAMABAD Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) senior leader Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Monday challenged the transfers/postings and shuffling of high officials by the caretaker government. Submitting a constitutional petition under Article 184 (3) of the Constitution, the PML-N ...

Lahore High Court (LHC) has been moved for arrest of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain through Interpol.The petitioners lawyer Advocate Fiaz Mahr took stance in the petition that Altaf Hussain has hatched conspiracy to disintegrate the country by anti Pakistan statements. Such a ...

ISLAMABAD The Supreme Court has been moved to declare that seniority or length of military service is not the sole criterion for the four military appointments under Article 243 and restrain Nawaz Sharif from making any military appointment in violation of the constitution and the military laws in ...

ISLAMABAD - A petition seeking registration of a murder case against former President Pervez Musharraf for ordering ‘Operation Silence’ against Lal Masjid was moved in the Islamabad High Court here on Monday.Justice Noor-ul-Haq N Qureshi will take up the petition today (Tuesday) while ...

NEW YORK:  The teen Boston Marathon bombing suspect, recovering from wounds suffered in a getaway attempt, has been moved from a hospital to a prison medical facility, theUSMarshals Service said Friday. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was sent to the Federal Medical Center Devens near Boston, spokesman ...

ISLAMABAD - The dark clouds are likely to keep prevailing over the former dictator’s fate as a fresh writ petition challenging the notification of declaring Pervez Musharaf’s farmhouse as sub-jail was filed in Islamabad High Court (IHC) here on Monday.It was also requested in the ...

islamabad  - A petition seeking disqualification of Awami National Party (ANP) Senator Muhammad Azam Khan Hoti was filed in Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday.A single bench of IHC comprising Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui heard the petition and issued notices to Election Commission of ...

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court has been requested through a writ petition to set aside the decision of an election tribunal allowing PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif to contest elections after dismissing an appeal against him.Ali Imran through Barrister Javed Iqbal Jaffri said in the petition that he had ...

LAHORE – A petition has been filed in the Lahore High Court for reopening the case of Bhagat Singh, a freedom fighter who was hanged in 1930.Petitioner Imtiaz Rasheed Qureshi has stated Bhagat Singh was a freedom fighter for independence of the sub-continent. He said he was firstly given life ...

Caretaker government’s step of reshuffling the government officials was challenged in Lahore High Court here in Lahore on Wednesday.Rana Arshad, Advocate submitted a petition in the LHC stating that caretaker government was only responsible to hold fair and transparent general elections in ...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) has been moved against the prolonged and unscheduled power outages across Punjab irking the domestic activities and bringing halt to commercial hustle and bustle. The complainant in his petition was of the view that discrimination was being meted out to power consumers ...

ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that the law and order situation remains terrible in Balochistan as neither the federal nor the provincial government has implemented its judgments.Heading a three-judge bench hearing a case involving a dispute between the State of ...

DASRATH Manjhi, a landless farmer from India, made history after he spent over two decades chiselling away at a mountain with rudimentary tools, in order to create a road for his community, when the government refused to.If you’re looking for some motivation, stories don’t get much more ...

ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court, through a petition, was prayed on Tuesday that the name of outgoing Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief, Lt-Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha be placed on the Exit Control List (ECL).  The petitioner advocate Tariq Asad, counsel for the relatives of missing ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court was moved on Tuesday to order abolishing the political wing of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) by declaring it in violation of the fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution.The petition was filed by Al-Jihad Trust Chairman Habibul Wahabul Khairi Advocate ...

LAHORE – The Lahore High Court has been requested to set aside appointment of Haji Habibur Rehman as Inspector General of Punjab Police. The petitioner Muhammad Fakhir has submitted that the newly-appointed IGP had been declared responsible “to some extent” by an LHC judicial ...

 An adjournment motion was moved in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Saturday against a resolution of US lawmaker in the Congress, seeking independence of Balochistan.The adjournment motion was moved by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lawmaker Javed Abbasi in the assembly against a ...

LAHORE – A petitioner moved the Lahore High Court against protesting doctors, seeking contempt proceedings against them.In his petition, Muhammad Azhar Siddique appealed to the court to charge the protesters with contempt of court as the Supreme Court had taken suo moto action over the ...

Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday was moved to declare as many as 13 politicians disqualified for not making assets public.The petitioners submitted a petition before the LHC pleading that these 13 political leaders did not uncover their assets; hence, they should be declared as ...

ISLAMABAD - A constitutional petition has been moved in the Supreme Court with a plea to interpret the scope of ‘consultation’ between the President and the outgoing Leader of the House and the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly for the formation of caretaker governments ...

The Lahore High Court has been requested through a writ petition to set aside the reappointment of Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran as Punjab University Vice Chancellor. Prof Dr Yousaf Hayat stated that the reappointment of Kamran was not only a violation of Punjab University Act but also violation of ...

LAHORE – The Lahore High Court has been approached through a writ petition seeking formation of a judicial commission to probe into Kargil incident. Advocate Rana Ilam Uddin on Tuesday filed the petition and stated 13 years had gone to the war at Kargil and the nation did not know what the ...

LAHORE - A petition has been filed in the Lahore High Court on Wednesday, securing the recovery of two children and registration of a case against almost all the family members of PML-Q leader Ahad Malik for helping the kids’ mother in “abduction”. Petitioner Irfan Mehmood stated ...

Lahore High Court(LHC) has been moved in connection with placement of Pakistani ambassador to US Hussain Haqqani name in Exit Control List (ECL). As per media reports Barrister Javed has filed the petition taking plea if ban is not imposed on Hussain Haqqani for moving outside the country then he ...

RAWALPINDI - PML-N President Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif have filed a writ petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench requesting it to quash the NAB corruption references filed against them and their family members as illegal, mala fide and without lawful ...