Tag: Court

LAHORE: Hearing of a petition challenging the pardon granted by President Asif Ali Zardari to Interior Minister Rehman Malik was adjourned to December 24 by a full bench of Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday. Earlier, Deputy Attorney General Naveed Inayat Malik had requested adjournment on behalf of the federation, citing Rehman's pending adjudication in Supreme Court as an excuse.
Barrister Farooq Hassan, representing the petitioner, opposed the request saying the government was

LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange blasted Visa, MasterCard and PayPal on Tuesday for blocking donations to his website, in a defiant statement from behind bars ahead of a fresh court appearance in London.
The Australian claimed the firms were "instruments of US foreign policy" but vowed their actions would not stop the whistle-blowing website from continuing to publish thousands of confidential US diplomatic cables. "My convictions are unfaltering. I remain true to the

LAHORE: Lahore police has showed no compliance to 1200 orders passed by different session courts during the last one year regarding registration of contempt of court cases against several police officials on the charges of disobeying court orders.
Despite implementation of the Police Order 2000, as many as 76 police stations and their respective SHOs in Lahore are not ready to implement court orders properly. They are found using delaying tactics in providing justice to the

LAHORE: Provincial Planning and Development Board Chairman Javed Aslam has directed the Communication and works (C&W) department to complete the construction of Punjab University's (PU) court complex near Jhelum within next four months. He was presiding over a meeting at the site of newly proposed PU campus located at 10-kilometers on the GT road from Jhelum on Monday.
PU Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran, Rawalpindi Division Commissioner Zahid Saeed, Education and

LAHORE: An accountability court on Thursday summoned former director Haj Maj (r) Rao Shakeel Ahmad for December 20, during the hearing of an application filed by National Accountability Bureau (NAB), seeking
the cancellation of his exemption from appearing in court.
Earlier, court had exempted Rao Shakeel Ahmad from appearing in court during the trials of a reference filed against him as he was serving as DCO Khaniwal and he had to participate in several meetings in this

NEW YORK: Kirsten Dunst was left upset and exasperated when she testified at the trial of a man accusing of stealing her handbag, insisting she was made to look like a "stupid actress" when she took the stand.
James Jimenez was accused of raiding the Spider-Man star's suite at the SoHo Grand Hotel in New York in 2007 while the actress was filming 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People' with Simon Pegg and Megan Fox.
Jimenez was found guilty of trespassing last year and he

ISLAMABAD: A three-member Supreme Court bench on Tuesday issued notice to the Petroleum Ministry's director general (DG) for using contemptuous language against the litigations pending in court.
The bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday was hearing a petition by Jamaat-e-Islami former chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad against the government's move to purchase its sold assets from British Petroleum at exorbitant

LAHORE: A consumer count on Saturday summoned Qatar Airways for reconciliation with an aggrieved handicap person who along with his wife and two minors had been allowed traveling towards Ecuador without visas by the airlines.
The court while fixing the December 15, summoned Qatar Airline through its manager, during the hearing of an application filed by Imran Ali, his wife Humaira Ali and minors Shayan Ali and Shaheera Ali.
In the application filed though Nasir Mahmud

PESHAWAR: A court on Thursday ordered a married pupil back to school, saying that tying the knot was no grounds for expulsion despite teachers' fears of gossip.
Ghairat Khan, a seventh grader with a beard, was thrown out of an elite English-language school in Peshawar seven months ago because teachers believed marital relations were inappropriate playground talk.
"The court reinstated Ghairat Khan and he will rejoin school tomorrow. The board of directors at the school has

LOS ANGELESS: Nicole Richie is stepping up her fight against a paparazzo she has accused of harassing her daughter Harlow - the socialite is heading back to court to seek a permanent restraining order.
Richie was granted a temporary injunction in November ordering Fabricio Luis Mariotto to stay 91 metres away from her, her fiance Joel Madden and their two children Harlow and Sparrow, and to keep his distance from Harlow's Los Angeles school.
The court ruling is only valid

ISLAMABAD: Punjab Advocate General Khawaja Haris Ahmad on Wednesday informed the Supreme Court that police was neither in the control of provincial government nor did it act on its advice.
He appeared before a three-member SC bench, comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, which was hearing a suo motu case pertaining to a clashes taken place between police and lawyers at Aiwan-e-Adl on Oct 1.
The court

ISLAMABAD: Attorney General Anwarul Haq on Wednesday submitted a reply in the Supreme Court Registrar's Office on behalf of chiefs of intelligence agencies, who said they or the agencies they were heading could not be made respondents in constitutional petitions.
The heads of the intelligence agencies also said in the reply that the 11 prisoners who went missing from Adiala Jail were not in their custody, adding that petitions filed by legal heirs of the missing prisoners or

ISLAMABAD: A 'Full Court' reference will be held at Supreme Court on Monday to honour Justice Rahmat Hussain Jafferi, a Supreme Court judge who retired on November 20 after reaching 65-years, an SC spokesman told Pakistan Today.
"The chief justice of Pakistan has not yet nominated any judge of the high court to replace Justice Jafferi in SC," he said, adding that most probably the outgoing judge will be replaced with a judge from the Lahore High Court according to the

ISLAMABAD: The third meeting of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) is expected to be held just after Eidul Azha holidays to nominate two Supreme Court judges and 40 high courts, including the Islamabad High Court chief justice.
According to sources in the JCP, the meeting would discuss nominations for two SC judges to replace Justice Rahmat Hussain Jafferi, who will be attaining the age of superannuation on November 20 and Justice Chaudhry Ijaz Ahmed, who retired on May 5

ISLAMABAD: All the chief secretaries will appear in the Supreme Court today (Wednesday) to submit their reports on unauthorized diversion of floodwater and the breaches allegedly made in the embankments of barrages and canals by influential people to save their lands.
A three-member Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Tariq Parvez and Justice Ghulam Rabbani will hear the matter. The court had taken notice into the matter on the letters

SANAA: A Yemeni court ordered radical Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi on Saturday to appear before it on charges of links to Al-Qaeda and incitement to kill foreigners, or face arrest by any means.
Judge Mohsen Alwan ordered the representative of the public prosecutor to inform the concerned authorities "to forcibly arrest ... Anwar al-Awlaqi and ... Othman al-Awlaqi."
US-born Awlaqi and Othman al-Awlaqi, a relative, were both charged in absentia by a Sanaa court on

PHNOM PENH: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday hailed the work of a Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal as "painful but necessary", despite Cambodian opposition to pursuing more regime leaders.
Clinton praised the nation for confronting its dark past after an emotional visit to Phnom Penh's genocide museum, where she saw photos of gaunt-faced prisoners, dozens of skulls of victims and paintings of people being tortured. The court "is bringing some of the people who