Tag: Court

Apple, Samsung score partial court victories in Germany

US electronics giant Apple and South Korea's Samsung Electronics each scored partial court victories in Germany Tuesday in their global war over rival tablet...

Saudi court releases five female Qaeda suspects

A Saudi court has released five women who allegedly had links with Al-Qaeda, an official said Monday, but implied that the move was unrelated...

Batman shooting suspect due in court

The man accused of gunning down 12 filmgoers and injuring dozens more at a screening of the latest Batman movie in Colorado was expected...

Pakistan offers protection to Afghan elopers

Peshawar High Court on Monday ordered police to protect an Afghan couple who eloped and fear being murdered by the bride's furious relatives. Hewad, 22,...

SC begins hearing petitions against new contempt law

The Supreme Court on Monday started hearing a number of petitions challenging the Contempt of Court Act 2012. A five-member bench of the Supreme...

Fakhruddin takes oath as CEC

Justice (retd) Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim took oath as the new Chief Election Commissioner at the Supreme Court on Monday. Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry...

Judicial probe into jail violence kicks off

District and Sessions Judge Amjad Ali Bohyo recorded the statements of the officials of Central Jail, Hyderabad, at a hearing on Saturday. The judge,...

Supreme Court can strike down unconstitutional laws: Ramday

Former Supreme Court Judge Justice (retd) Khalilur Rehman Ramday on Friday said that the nation should not be misguided through political sloganeering. Speaking at a...

Petition filed against immunity to president and PM

Jamil Rana Advocate on Friday filed a petition in the Supreme Court Lahore Registry against the immunity to the president and prime minister. As per...

Contempt law: SC forms five-member bench to hear petitions

A larger bench of the Supreme Court (SC) has been constituted to hear the petitions filed against Contempt of court law 2012, media reports...

PHC: Four additional judges sworn in

Four additional judges of Peshawar High Court (PHC) took oath on Friday raising total number of judges to 13. Chief Justice PHC Justice Dost Muhammad...

Court reopens graft references against Sharifs

An accountability court in Rawalpindi has reopened references against the Sharif brothers on the recommendations of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for their involvement in...

Haqqani files application for exemption from court appearance

Former ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani on Tuesday submitted an application in the court seeking exemption from appearing before the court in...

Saudi court condemns ‘tattoo king’ to jail, lashes

A Lebanese man nicknamed the “tattoo king” has been sentenced to one year in prison and 200 lashes in the conservative Muslim kingdom, a...

Haqqani files application for exemption from court appearances

Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani submitted an application for exemption from appearing before the court in the memo case on...

ATC rejects commission’s report on Mumbai attack

The anti-terrorist court (ATC) on Tuesday rejected the report submitted by the commission on the Mumbai attacks case. The ATC was hearing the petition against...

Maldivian ex-president dismisses court charges

Former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed, who was forced out of office in February, vowed on Tuesday to defend himself against court charges of abuse...