Tag: Contempt

The killing rampage in Karachi is indicative of complete collapse of the law enforcement apparatus due to politicisation of the police and other civil...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday adjourned the hearing of a contempt petition against Federal Religious Affairs Secretary Shaukat Hayat Durrani and Haj...

The Supreme Court on Thursday granted more time to three federal secretaries, including principal secretary to prime minister, who were issued contempt notices in...

The Supreme Court formally charged Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General (DG) Malik Muhammad Iqbal on Friday with contempt of court for transferring an...

The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday ordered the indictment of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General Malik Iqbal for transferring FIA additional DG Zafar...

During a brief hearing of the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) scam on Thursday, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry fixed a contempt of court...

The Rawalpindi Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday issued contempt of court notice to FIA Director General Malik Iqbal for separating the investigation officer from...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a contempt of court notice to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General Malik Iqbal for removing FIA Additional...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday disposed of a contempt of court petition against the federal law secretary for not notifying a one-year extension in...

MIRPUR KHAS - Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon has said that he would not apologise to the apex court over contempt charges. Addressing a public rally in Nagarparkar district on Tuesday, Memon said the hanging of PPP founder was a judicial murder.
"The courts reinstated the Nawaz Sharif government, but the same court did not reinstated Benazir Bhutto's government despite a formal request," he said. He said the PPP was a democratic party that gave the country its

KARACHI - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Sindh Secretary-General Taj Haider is ready and willing to appear before the Supreme Court (SC) on contempt of court proceedings.
The SC on Saturday took notice of a press conference organised by PPP-Sindh in connection with a verdict of the apex court regarding former National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chief Deedar Hussain Shah. Issuing contempt notices to Haider and another PPP-Sindh leader, Sharjeel Inam Memon, the court also sought

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court (SC) is likely to issue on Monday (today) a contempt of court notice to the government for its refusal to sack Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General (DG) Waseem Ahmed, legal experts told Pakistan Today on Sunday.
The government's written reply to the court on Saturday, in which it refused to remove the FIA chief, will be considered by a SC bench headed by Chief Justice (CJ) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry today. Earlier on March 1, a

LAHORE - A General House meeting of the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) on Friday condemned the contempt of court notice issued by a dysfunctional judge of the Peshawar High Court to four judges of the Supreme Court bench hearing contempt proceedings against PCO judges.
The LHCBA also demanded the government not hand over Raymond Davis, a US national accused of murdering two Pakistani youth, to his home country, saying Davis should be punished for his crime according

ISLAMABAD - Former de-facto chief justice of Pakistan, Abdul Hameed Dogar, and dysfunctional PCO judge of Sindh High Court Yasmin Abbasey on Thursday filed intra-court appeals in the Supreme Court seeking setting aside of its earlier short order of initiating contempt proceedings against them from February 21.
Earlier on February 15, Justice (r) Iftikhar Hussain, former LHC chief justice had filed an intra-court appeal in the Supreme Court seeking setting aside of its earlier

PESHAWAR - Justice Jehanzaib Rahim, a dysfunctional judge of the Peshawar High Court (PHC), on Thursday issued a show-cause notice to the larger bench of the Supreme Court, scheduled to hear contempt proceedings against eight PCO judges, including him on February 21, to appear before his court also on February 21, to explain the grounds for serving him the contempt of court notice.
Legal experts say the show-cause notice issued by Justice Rahim did not have any legal or moral

ISLAMABAD - Justice (r) Iftikhar Hussain, a retired chief justice of the Lahore High Court (LHC), on Tuesday filed an intra-court appeal in the Supreme Court seeking setting aside of its earlier short order of initiating contempt proceedings against him from Feb 21.
Earlier on Monday, Justice Shabbar Raza Rizvi, a dysfunctional judge of the LHC had filed a similar plea. Dr Khalid Ranjha, counsel for Justice (r) Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry prayed that the Feb 2 order was not

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday issued contempt of court notice to Zari Taraqaiti Bank Limited (ZTBL) President, Zaka Ashraf, and summoned him on February 21 over his failure to comply with a court order regarding release of salary to a senior official.
A single bench of IHC comprising Justice Muhammad Anwar Khan Kasi heard petition filed by ZTBL Assistant Vice President Gazanfar Ali. The petitioner, through his counsel, told the court that the ZTBL