Tag: Court

DHAKA - Bangladesh's highest court rejected on Tuesday an appeal by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus against his dismissal as managing director of Grameen Bank, the microlender he founded, lawyers said.
Associates say Yunus's removal is prompted by government vendetta after he briefly considered a political career to challenge Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Yunus, 70, made the plea last month after the country's high court upheld a central bank order dismissing him from the

RIYADH - A total of 5,080 "terror" suspects were being tried or had already been sentenced in Saudi Arabia, which battled a wave of Al Qaeda attacks in 2003-2006, the kingdom's prosecutor said on Saturday. A court specialised in terror crimes had issued its verdicts in the case of 1,612 people, while 603 other cases were still being examined, the Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency. Prosecutors were also preparing charges

KARACHI - The Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) led by former Sindh chief minister Liaquat Ali Jatoi on Friday decided to file a constitutional petition in the Supreme Court requesting that the court stops the government from working, forms a caretaker government under Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudry's guidance, and conducts general elections.
The decision was made during a meeting of the AIP Central Executive Council (CEC) held in a local hotel on Friday. Briefing the media,

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari signed reference under Article 186 of the Constitution to revisit the case of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and give its opinion on the death sentence awarded to Pakistan's first directly elected Prime Minister by the Lahore High Court and subsequently upheld by the Supreme Court in March 1979 in a split verdict.
The President signed the reference a short while ago in the presence of Law Minister Babar Awan and Sindh home minister Zulfikar

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed a review petition filed by those convicted in the Pervez Musharraf attack case and upheld the Lahore High Court (LHC)'s decision. A three-member SC bench headed by Chief Justice (CJ) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry took up the petition for hearing on Thursday. Lawyer Hashmat Habib appeared on behalf of the two accused, Aamir Sohail and Rana Naveed, who were both given life sentences by the LHC, while lawyer Col (r) Akram represented the rest

LAHORE - Justice Ch Iftikhar Hussain of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday sought replies from federal and provincial governments on a petition praying to seek an explanation from Federal Law Minister Babar Awan, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, AD&SJ Muhammad
Yousaf Aujla and others as to why they facilitated the release of Raymond Davis on emergency basis ignoring LHC orders that had put his name on the Exit Control List (ECL). The petitioner, Barrister Jaffree, had prayed

LAHORE - Lahore High Court judge Justice Ch Iftikhar Hussain on Tuesday sought complete record of trial court which acquitted CIA contractor Raymond Davis in double murder case after the legal heirs of deceased Fizan and Faheem had pardoned him by accepting blood-money (Diyat) from accused.
The court passed this order on a writ petition filed by Advocate Rana Ilamud Din challenging payment of Diyat money as, according to him, trial court left a lot of lacunas and acted in haste

MILAN - Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, his popularity plummeting as he faces a string of legal cases, appeared in court for the first time in eight years on Monday. Berlusconi, who faces charges in four separate trials in coming weeks including one for having sex with an underage prostitute, smiled and waved to supporters gathered outside the Milan tribunal as he left the building. Monday's hearing, over alleged fraud during the acquisition of television broadcasting

KARACHI - Saleem Shehzad, a former employee of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) awaiting court orders for reinstatement, died on Sunday after suffering a full cardiac arrest.
A resident of Ranchore Lines, Shehzad was among the 294 management-cadre employees sacked in April 2010 by the KESC management on charges of "poor performance and misconduct," sources told Pakistan Today. The company's stated reason for firing these officers was that they had failed to deliver

ISLAMABAD - An anti-terrorism court was told on Saturday that Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, the police commando charged with killing of former governor Punjab Salmaan Taseer, insisted for being deputed as one of his bodyguards, The hearing was held in the Adiala Jail Rawalpindi during which the court recorded the statements of three witnesses. The moharrar, the officials assigning duties, of Elite Force Punjab Umer Farooq told the court that he deputed Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri on the

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Friday sought the complete record of appointments made in the Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) during the tenure of former federal minister for labor and manpower Syed Khurshid Shah.
The court also issued notices to 132 employees of EOBI, who got jobs during the last three years, observing why had they not been terminated if they got employed illegally. The court noted that it would examine the matter under Article 184(3) of the

KARACHI - The Provincial Anti-Corruption Court on Thursday granted acquittal plea moved by lecturer Abdul Sattar Soomro charged with fake appointments in the Sindh Education Department.
The special court's Judge Rashida Asad passed the judgment after hearing arguments from both sides and examining the evidences and records produced by the prosecution.
Advocate Wazir Khoso appeared before the court on behalf of accused Abdul Sattar Soomro, a lecturer of Sindhi at Larkana's

ISLAMABAD - In its detailed verdict on the appointment of Justice (r) Syed Deedar Hussain Shah as the NAB chairman, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said the matter had been handled by the Law Ministry in a manner depicting shallow and perfunctory understanding of the constitution and relevant laws.
The judgement authored by Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa said that during the process, the former judge of the apex court had suffered for no fault of his own, as it was because of his two

MILAN - The legal marathon facing Silvio Berlusconi resumed on Monday when a bribery trial reopened in Milan but the Italian prime minister, due to brief the cabinet on the Libya emergency, did not appear in court. Italy's involvement in the air campaign against his former friend Muammar Gaddafi has diverted some attention from Berlusconi's legal woes but the premier is confronting court battles that have overshadowed Rome political life for months.
The "Rubygate" affair, in

LAHORE - A local court on Saturday released the detailed judgement of the Raymond Davis case. The text of detailed judgement stated that the case was fixed for framing of charge as copies of all documents stand delivered to the accused on February 25, 2011 and remaining copies of the documents at the request of the accused were delivered to him on March 8, 2011 both in English and Urdu.
It has been argued by the learned defence counsel that honourable Lahore High Court has

LAHORE - Things have further worsened on the Punjab's governance arena, as the provincial management service (PMS) officers and the district management group (DMG) officers stick to their guns after the civil court granted bail to 73 provincial officers on Saturday. As a show of strength, hundreds of provincial service officers from the districts and the civil secretariat gathered at the city courts to receive their colleagues arrested from within the premises of the civil secretariat

RAWALPINDI - The Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) gave the Federal Intelligence Agency (FIA) one more week to serve an arrest warrant on former president Pervez Musharraf over the murder of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto, court officials said.
Musharraf, who was president when Bhutto was killed in December 2007 in a gun and suicide bomb attack in Rawalpindi, is accused of failing to provide her with adequate security. He now lives in self-imposed exile in London.
Judge Rana Nisar