Tag: chief justice

LHC gives Religious Ministry more time to file Haj Policy record

Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) on Friday, giving more time to the Religious Ministry, directed it to file the detailed record of...

SC directs NADRA chairman to resolve eunuchs’ guardian issue

The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) chairman to resolve the issue related to the registration of the...

SC to form larger bench to hear Benazir murder case

The ball is in the government’s court. Hearing a plea seeking orders for registration of a fresh first information report (FIR) against former president...

6 more die, PMA rejects CMIT’s report

Six more patients succumbed to the mysterious disease due to Punjab Institute of Cardiology medicines while Pakistan Medical Association condemned the arrest of doctors...

Of Bonapartists

India has some too The issue of the two army chiefs, in India and Pakistan, still dominate the discussions. Chief of Army Staff V K...

Balance and equity

The quality of justice should not be strained With so much to say and such little space to say it in, best to KISS –...

Swiss letter, and spirit

A judgement is a judgement It is actually not that complicated. Are the judges always right? No. Should their judgements always be followed in letter...

To the courts

Better sense prevails It was almost surreal to witness the prime minister appearing in person before a seven member special bench of the Supreme Court...

Life is unfair

Cracking this nutcracker The PPP-led coalition is in all kinds of trouble, some of its own making. In a nutcracker situation, it is facing the...

‘People must cultivate a reading habit’, says LHC CJ

Lahore High Court Chief Justice Azmat Saeed on Wednesday stressed the need for holding seminars at the Tehsil and district level throughout Punjab so...

IHC stays repatriation of female teachers

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday stayed repatriation of the female teachers working on deputation under the wedlock policy in various schools of...

The menace of bonded labour

Sabir Masih was a 17-year-old young man when I met him in 2005 in Lahore. The day was August 14, when bonded labourers working...

Petition against Sherry forwarded to chief justice

After a preliminary hearing of the petition against Sherry Rehman’s nomination as ambassador to the US, Justice Khalid Mahmood of the Lahore High Court...

SC takes up govt’s review plea against NRO today

A 17-member larger bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will take up today (Monday) the government’s review petition...

LHC CJ seeks help on Raymond Davis petition

Lahore High Court Chief Justice (CJ) Azmat Saeed on Thursday issued notice to provincial and federal government law officials for legal assistance in a...

New LHC CJ takes oath

Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Thursday took oath as the new chief justice (CJ) of the Lahore High Court (LHC). Punjab Governor Latif Khosa...

LHC CJ Ijaz Ahmed ‘sent off’ to SC

Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudary, who was elevated to the Supreme Court, left for Islamabad on Wednesday after a ‘Send off’...