lahore - The Lahore High Court on Thursday overruled an objection on the petition challenging the appointment of Pakistan Electronic Media and Regularity Authority Chairman Chaudhry Rashid Ahmad, and directed the registrar office to fix the petition before any appropriate bench for hearing.The LHC ...

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 ...

lahore Ministry of Science and Technology on Tuesday withdrew a petition from the Supreme Court against a renowned scientist Riaz-ud-Din, who had cloned locally, a cheapest interferon for the poor hepatitis patients.Ikhlaq Ahmad Tarrar, Secretary of the Ministry, appeared before a two member bench ...

CAIRO : A campaign calling for the ouster of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi and for early presidential elections has gathered over two million signatures, organisers told AFP.The "Tamarod" (Rebellion in Arabic) campaign seeks to withdraw confidence from the Islamist leader because he has failed ...

LAHORE - The LHC on Saturday disposed of a plea filed by former Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif against a TV advertisement of the Pakistan People’s Party on the request of petitioner’s counsel.A representative of the ECP appeared before the full bench and informed the court that ...

Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday dismissed a petition challenging the notification issued by Islamabad Capital Territory Authority (ICTA) declaring Pervez Musharraf’s farmhouse as sub-jail.IHC judge Justice Riaz Ahmad Khan heard the petition in which Chief Commissioner Islamabad Capital ...

A division bench of the Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi registry dismissed the bail petition submitted by former military ruler Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf in the Benazir Bhutto murder case. The bail was dismissed on the grounds that Musharraf’s counsel did not pursue the case on bail ...

Islamabad High Court has admitted a petition challenging sub-jail status given to farm house of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf.Petitioner Advocate Muhammad Ashraf Gujjar had challenged the notification issued by Chief Commissioner Islamabad, which declared the former president’s Chak ...

Another petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking proceedings against former military ruler Pervez Musharraf under Article 6 of the Constitution of Pakistan.According to a private television channel, this is the second petition calling to begin treason proceedings against the former ...

KARACHI - A petition was filed against the 423 Sindh police officers allegedly involved in crimes in the Supreme Court Karachi Registry. It was revealed in the member inspection team’s report submitted in the SC Karachi Registry during hearing of Karachi law and order case that 423 Sindh ...

A petition against the dissolution of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has been filed in Supreme Court’s Lahore registry on Saturday.According to a private television channel, the petition, filed by barrister Zafarullah, stated that the chief election commissioner and members were ...

LAHORE - An application was filed on Wednesday before the Supreme Court, Lahore Registry, to seek direction to restrain the NAB chairman, the Punjab director general, DG (HR and finance) and the Punjab additional prosecutor general from performing their duties till decision on the implementation of ...

KARACHI  - Sindh High Court has shifted a constitutional petition to its two member bench seeking action against Tahirul Qadri and MQM chief and its 50 parliamentarians for expressing blasphemous remarks and inflaming turmoil in the country. SHC bench comprising Chief Justice Mushir Alam ...

KARACHI - Sindh High Court has shifted a constitutional petition to its two member bench seeking action against Tahirul Qadri and MQM chief and its 50 parliamentarians for expressing blasphemous remarks and inflaming turmoil in the country. SHC bench comprising Chief Justice Mushir Alam and Justice ...

A petition has been filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) against the Young Doctors Association (YDA) move to go on strike on January 10, if their demands would not be accepted.The petitioner termed the YDA attitude as “criminal negligence” and urged the court to cancel the licences of ...

ISLAMABAD  - The adjutant general of Pakistan Army and the judge advocate general, the senior most law officer at the GHQ, were made respondents in a petition filed in the Supreme Court about the ongoing judicial probe into the Lal Masjid incident. The petition states two officers are duty ...

ISLAMABAD  - A petition pleading for immediate stay order regarding induction of caretaker prime minister has been filed in the Supreme Court. The petitioner Shahid Orakzai has held the stance that the opposition leader in National Assembly Chaudhary Nisar has nominated two former judges of ...

LAHORE – A constitutional writ petition has been filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) challenging all steps and decisions of former Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, including the budget for fiscal year 2012-13. Advocate Muhammad Azhar Siddique filed the petition and submitted that Syed ...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday summoned Attorney General of Pakistan (AGP) Irfan Qadir in the next hearing in a petition seeking to stop Yousuf Raza Gilani from working as prime minister after his conviction by the Supreme Court in the contempt of court case.During the hearing, Chief Justice ...

A petition filed in Sindh High Court seeks to bar Prime Minister from performing State functions. In his miscellaneous petition, the petitioner Maulvi Iqbal Haider has pleaded that after being proven for violation of article 63(1)(g), the PM was no longer illegible for his office, and even as an ...

LAHORE - The Supreme Court of Pakistan has been requested to issue red warrant to former Pakistani ambassador to US Hussain Haqqani in order to bring him back through Interpol to record his statement before the Memogate Commission. Petitioner Barrister Zafarullah filed a civil miscellaneous ...

A petition was submitted in the Supreme Court Lahore registry on Thursday to arrest former Pakistan ambassador to US Husain Haqqani in the memogate scandal through Interpol. The petitioner Barrister Zafarullah said in the writ application that it is illegal to record statement of Husain Haqqani via ...

Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday accepted a petition for hearing seeking Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani’s disqualification.The plea was filed in the LHC in which the petitioner took the stance that the Prime Minister received billions of rupees loans from Agriculture Development ...

A petition, seeking provision of free education by the state to the children of age group from 5 to 16 years, was filed in Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday.The petitioner Syed Feroze Shah Gilani took the plea in the petition that providing education to the children of age group from 5 to 16 ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea against PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif for embezzlement in Pakistan Bait-Ul-Mal (PBM) funds.A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry heard the petition filed by Al-Jihad Trust Chairman Habibul ...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) Thursday admitted for hearing a petition seeking stay order against flight of training aircraft in residential areas and sought reply from  the Civil Aviation, federal and provincial government. The petition was filed by advocate Ishtiaq Ahmad Chaudhry.The ...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) Friday adjourned till February 27 hearing of petition filed against Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) in connection with purchase of sugar at higher rates.The court took up the case for hearing and the TCP  filed detailed reply stating that it purchased 250000 ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday admitted a petition for regular hearing that urged the court to stop the government from sacking Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director-General (DG) Shuja Ahmed Pasha.A three-member bench headed ...

LAHORE – Against the backdrop of political settlement between the Pakistan Muslim League Quaid-e-Azam and Pakistan People’s Party leaderships, Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain, the PML-Q chief, on Monday withdrew a disqualification plea against Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar which he had filed ...

 The Lahore High Court (LHC) has formed a judicial commission to probe the medicine reaction deaths, a private TV reported Monday. The LHC has formed the commission after being approached by the Punjab government. The commission will comprise of Justice Ijaz ul Hasan. Prior to the formation of ...