ISLAMABAD National Accountability Bureau (NAB) released its annual report for 2012 - a watershed year in the history of the bureau - as the report says that on the enforcement side of NAB activities recoveries through Voluntary Return (VR) and Plea Bargain (PB) amounted to Rs 25 billion.Despite ...

lahore  The Lahore High Court on Tuesday reserved decision on a writ petition seeking recounting of votes in PP-56 of Faisalabad. The petition was moved by Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan Jatoi who lost the recent elections.The petitioner through his counsel submitted that he had contested the ...

NEW DELHI: India’s highest court Friday rejected a plea by Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt to review his conviction and five-year jail term for possessing arms supplied by plotters of the deadly 1993 Mumbai blasts.The muscular, tattooed 53-year-old was convicted by an anti-terrorism court in 2006 ...

islamabad - Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan has made an emphatic appeal to the people to vote his party to power for their own sake.“Allah will not let me leave this world until I succeed in making a new Pakistan,” Imran Khan hoped while addressing the last rally before ...

 ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Tuesday admitted a petition seeking registration of a murder case against former President Pervez Musharraf for ordering military operation against Lal Masjid.Justice Noor-ul-Haq N Qureshi heard the petition and issued notice to SHO Aabpara Police ...

LAHOREA full bench of the Lahore High Court on Thursday adjourned until May 6 further hearing on a petition moved by the former President Pervez Musharraf challenging Election Tribunal’s decision disqualifying him to contest elections from NA-139 of Kasur. In his petition, Pervez Musharraf ...

UNITED NATIONS Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Monday renewed his appeal for unfettered access to Syria for the United Nations team probing the alleged use of chemical weapons during the conflict, as he met in New York with the head of the investigation. “A credible and comprehensive ...

RAWALPINDI - The Lahore High Court on Wednesday dismissed former military ruler Pervez Musharraf’s plea for extension to pre-arrest interim bail for non-prosecution, in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case. The court disposed of another application by the former president for exemption from ...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday rejected the plea, seeking disqualification of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan.A voter Ms Amina Khan has challenged the acceptance of Khan’s nomination papers for a national assembly seat NA-122, Lahore.The petitioner alleged that Imran ...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday rejected a plea to arrest former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf and ordered his counsel to submit his reply by April 15 in the ongoing treason case against the former military ruler.Musharraf’s counsel Barrister Ahmed Raza Kasuri sought ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court Wednesday dismissed Dr Tahirul Qadri’s petition for reconstitution of Election Commission of Pakistan as he failed to satisfy the court on his intentions behind the move and his right, as a dual national, to file such petition.In its short order, a three-member ...

A petition was moved on Monday in the Supreme Court’s Lahore Registry pleading it to take up the earlier moved petition for abolishing death penalty from the country.The petition was filed by Barrister Zafarullah representing ‘Watan party’, a private TV channel reported.Referring ...

Supreme Court (SC) has taken up an application against the potential sacking of Army Chief Kayani and the ISI Chief Pasha as maintainable, report said on Tuesday. A three-judge SC bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry heard the petition concerning the objections ...

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an application moved by Mansoor Ijaz, the main character behind memogate issue, seeking its direction for the Commission to record his evidences outside Pakistan.A nine-member larger bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry directed his ...

An Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) of Rawalpindi rejected Sehba’s Musharraf petition against declaring Musharraf as an absconder.ATC No 1, Rawalpindi judge Shahid Rafique Saturday heard the petition filed by Sehba Musharraf against verdict that declared her spouse as an absconder in Benazir Bhutto ...

A local Islamabad court dismissed an application for seeking the registration of a case against Ijaz in a police station.According to a private television channel, additional Session Judge Syed Wajahat Hasan Announced the ruling over a petition pleading the court to register in a police station a ...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Saturday directed Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain to submit his affidavit in the court till December 21 with regard to his application against former Sindh home minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza. An application was filed by MQM chief through Farooq ...

The local court of Peshawar on Monday has rejected bail plea of US national Mark De Aavon because he has failed to present travel documents while he would remain on judicial remand for ten days. According to private TV channel, Mark De Aavon US national arrested from Peshawar for not possessing ...

A plea has been registered in Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday asking to submit Raymond Daviss record in court. According to Media Reports, Local lawyer said the weapons recovered from Davis have not been submitted to the court and the Interior Minister has not presented the suspects passport and ...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday declared a writ petition against discretionary powers of the President, the Prime Minister, governors and chief ministers as non-maintainable and dismissed the plea. The petition filed by Ilmuddin Ghazi Advocate contended that the rulers were using ...

The widow of Imran Farooq, who was murdered in London last week, made a highly emotional appeal for help in catching his killers on Thursday as police said they were still investigating the reason for the attack. Imran Farooq, 50, a founding member of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) party, was ...

Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed an appeal of Muslim League (N) disqualified MPA Rizwan Gul and ordered the election commission to register criminal case against him. A three-member bench of Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry heard the appeal of Rizwan Gul, former MPA from PP-34 ...

After the United Nations ratified a resolution calling for a nuclear weapons-free Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moves to condemn the treaty. The attack came after all 189 signatories to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) reached a deal on Friday for the establishment of a ...

A four-day trip by Joe Biden designed to kick-start faltering peace talks between the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships ended in failure last night despite a parting plea for negotiations to begin with no delay. The efforts of the US Vice-President to rekindle peace initiatives were dealt a ...

Reserving the verdict on acquittal petition filed by co-accused in ARY Gold Reference Salman Farooqi, the Special Accountability Court No. 2 Rawalpindi has adjourned the hearing till March 6. Justice (retd) Chaudhary Mushtaq Ahmed represented Salman Farooqi while National Accountability Bureau ...

Accountability court Saturday reserved its verdict on plea of acquittal of the former chairman Pakistan Steel Usman Farooqui in corruption reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau, a private TV reported. Usman Farooqui facing charges of alleged irregularities and misuse of powers as ...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) has rejected Rehman Maliks plea seeking exemption from in person appearance in the court. However, the court extended the pre-arrest bail till February 25. A bench comprising Justice Khawaja Sharif and Justice Manzoor Malik heard the case. Maliks counsels argued that an ...

The young Nigerian charged with trying to blow up a U.S. jetliner as it approached Detroit made his first court appearance Friday. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, said little as a not guilty plea was entered on his behalf, The Detroit News reported. He was polite, addressing U.S. Magistrate Judge ...

Lahore High Court Tuesday reserved its verdict over the government of Punjab plea for postponement of the bye elections in the province. The counsels of Punjab government Khwaja Haris and Mustafa Ramday in their arguments said that the election commission has announced the election schedule without ...

The International Committee of the Red Cross on Sunday appealed for 7.8 million dollars in emergency funding to help victims of the powerful earthquake that rocked southwest Pakistan this week. The ICRC said that the money would be used to step up the relief effort being carried out by its teams ...