Tag: Court

LAHORE - An accountability court on Saturday summoned former Haj director general (DG) Major (r) Rao Shakeel Ahmed on January 21 to join the hearing of a reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against him. Earlier, the court had exempted Shakeel from appearance in court, as he was serving as Khanewal DCO and had to participate in several official meetings.
A reference has been filed against Shakeel accusing the former Haj DG of collaborating with his father

ADEN - A court in Yemen's southeastern city of Mukalla sentenced 13 Somalis each to 12 years in jail on Saturday after convicting them of piracy, a judicial source said.
The men, whose trial had started in October last year, were found guilty of seizing two Yemeni boats in the Gulf of Aden to use as mother ships from which to launch attacks on merchant vessels.
Yemen's navy said in May it nabbed the 13 Somali pirates and liberated a fishing boat and its crew four days after

LOS ANGELES - Courtney Love has been locked in a dispute with Dawn Simorangkir, a fashion designer who was demanding payment for a few thousand dollars worth of clothes.
So on March 17, 2009, Love took to her Twitter account and began hurling a stream of shocking insults at the designer known as the "Boudoir Queen." Love's tweets, which instantly landed in the Twitter feeds of her 40,000 or so followers (and countless others via retweets), announced that Simorangkir was a

ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI - The appearance of Malik Mumtaz Qadri, the assassin of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, in an anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Thursday turned into an hours-long chaotic drama as dozens of his angry supporters stopped the relocation of his hearing from Rawalpindi to Islamabad.
The police officials in Islamabad had planned to present Qadri before an anti-terrorism court that was temporarily shifted from Rawalpindi to the capital city's sector G-7 owing to

ISLAMABAD - A local court on Wednesday ordered a one-day remand in police custody of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer's killer Malik Mumtaz Qadri.
Qadri, an Elite Force Punjab constable, was produced before duty magistrate Naeem Shaukat, who sent him on a one-day transit remand. The court ordered the assassin to be produced before Anti-Terrorism Court in Rawalpindi today (Thursday). The court also ordered police to get a medical examination of Qadri.
Meanwhile, the

KAMPALA - A Ugandan judge ruled on Monday in favour of a petition to stop media companies from outing homosexuals, a lawyer told AFP. The judge ruled that publishing the identities of people perceived to be homosexual violated Uganda's constitutional right to privacy, said John Francis Onyango, who represented three gay rights campaigners.
"The judge granted a permanent injunction against (the anti-gay tabloid) Rolling Stone from publishing these names," Onyango said. "But the

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court will today (Monday) resume hearing of various high-profile cases, including those regarding the purchase of assets of the British Petroleum on exorbitant prices, privatisation of Habib Bank, unauthorised diversion of floodwater by the influential, contempt of court against superior court judges who took oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) in defiance of a SC restrain order of November 3, 2007.
A three-member Supreme Court bench of

Prince Michael, 13, is likely to be called by defence lawyers for Dr Conrad Murray, the singer's personal physician, at a pre-trial hearing due to start in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
Murray's lawyers will claim he gave Jackson only 25 milligrams of the anaesthetic propofol on the day he died in June, 2009, not the massive overdose that killed him. They will also say Jackson added more of the drug to his intravenous drip while his doctor was in the bathroom and will try to prove the

LAHORE - Only one judge out of five performed his duty at the accountability courts yesterday and heard four cases as all the remaining judges were on leave. Accountability Court No 1 Judge Falak Sher heard the cases against Mian Muhammad Rasheed former MPA (PML-N), Khurram Shahzad (Forex Fraud), Muhammad Amjad Minhas and Muhammad Ibrahim (HBL Fraud).
He extended the physical remand of Muhammad Amjad Minhas and Muhammad Ibrahim nominated in Habib Bank Wasanpura Branch fraud case

ISLAMABAD - A constitutional petition challenging the resignations of two federal ministers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday.
In his petition under Article 184(3), Shahid Orakzai raised pertinent questions regarding whether under Article 29, a federal minister could tender resignation on the command of any person, who is not a citizen of Pakistan or not? Whether any person,
who is not a citizen of Pakistan can lead or control

BANGKOK - A Thai court Thursday jailed 84 supporters of the "Yellow Shirt" royalist movement for storming a television station in 2008 in protest at a government allied with former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
They were handed prison sentences of between six months and two-and-a-half years by Bangkok's Criminal Court, mostly for illegal assembly and trespassing. The August 2008 incident at the National Broadcasting Service of Thailand state television station was one in series

TEHRAN - An Iranian court has ruled that a man must lose an eye and an ear after he blinded and burnt an ear of another man in an acid attack, newspapers reported on Wednesday.
Judge Aziz Mohammadi gave the order against the man, who was only identified as Hamid, after convicting him of the throwing acid on the victim, named as Davoud, said the hardline Kayhan newspaper.
The judge also ordered Hamid to pay blood-money for the burn injuries suffered by Davoud, in a ruling

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday directed the provincial government to dismiss Kambar Shahdadkot District Coordination Officer (DCO) Ghulam Qadir along with all the DCOs in the province without the required qualification.
District Management Group Officer Gul Hassan Channa had filed a constitutional petition under Article No 199 of the Constitution through his counsel, Advocate Abrar Hassan, challenging the direction of the Sindh government on the appointment of

A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed before the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court Thursday alleging obscenity in Bollywood films 'Dabangg' and 'Tees Maar Khan'.
The petition sought the deletion of popular songs 'Munni Badnaam Hui' from 'Dabangg' and 'Shiela ki Jawani' from 'Tees Maar Khan'. Filed by Nutan Thakur, wife of an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer,
the PIL seeks action against 'Dabangg' producer Arbaz Khan and co-producers Malaika Arora Khan and

LAHORE: A Lahore High Court (LHC) election tribunal on Friday imposed a Rs 10,000 fine on petitioner Rana Tariq for not producing evidence against Punjab Food Minister Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor whose educational degrees he has challenged. The
tribunal, during the petition's last hearing, had directed Tariq to produce evidences and witnesses before a local commission for recording their statements but he failed to do so. The petitioner, who contested the 2008 general elections

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani assured the National Assembly on Thursday that the Inter-Services Agency (ISI), being the extremely important and sensitive organization, would never be asked to appear before a US court.
"We are as sensitive about this issue as any other in the House," the prime minister said after Opposition Leader Ch Nisar Ali Khan expressed apprehensions over summoning of the top intelligence officials by a US court.
Prime Minister Gilani

QUETTA - An anti-terror court granted a seven-day physical remand of provincial president of Jamhoori Watan Party Shahzain Bugti and his 26 guards, a private TV channel reported on Thursday.
Outside the court, Shahzain told media that his arrest was directed at foiling his bid to hold a long march to Dera Bugti in January. Earlier, an FIR was registered against Shahzain, a grandson of the late Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, and his personal guards for keeping illegal arms.
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