Tag: Hearing

The war of attrition between the Pakistan Cricket Board and Shahid Afridi, which is damaging the game, turned worse when the all-rounder’s lawyer demanded...

A man was unable to absorb the loss of his lone son, killed in a militants attack on security forces check post at Shal...

Banking court on Tuesday adjourned the National Insurance Company Limited (NCIL) case until June 10 as the court judge was busy in the Lahore...

Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Friday ordered constituting a division bench (DB) to hear petitions challenging the Haj...

Three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador’s defence team are looking for a delay of June’s doping hearing before the Court of Arbitration for...

A Lahore accountability court will resume hearing of a corruption case against former prime minister Benazir’s Bhutto political secretary Ahmed Sadiq on June 18...

A division bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday adjourned until May 23 the hearing of a bail petition by former Bank...

Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Tuesday adjourned indefinitely, hearing of a petition against the US operation, which killed Osama Bin...

LAHORE - The LHC on Tuesday adjourned proceedings till April 21 in a petition by Punjab Civil Services Welfare Association (PCSWA) president and others challenging the show-cause notice issued to them and subsequent suspension orders. LHC Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry deferred the hearing on a request from the petitioners/ suspended officers as their counsel lawyer Hamid Khan could not appear in court owing to some other engagements.
The petition was filed by the PCSWA

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leader Moonis Elahi indictment in the National Insurance Corporation (NICL) case delayed until May 3.
Moonis Elahi was presented before a banking court in the National Insurance Corporation (NICL) case here on Tuesday but hearing was adjourned.
Moonis was expected to be indicted in the case on Tuesday, but the Federal Investigation Authorities (FIA) told the court that the investigation officer was busy in the Lahore High Court,

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday adjourned the hearing of a petition challenging appointment of eight directors of the Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) until April 28. Earlier, a reply was submitted in the court on behalf of the Punjab government and education department stating that all appointments were made according to the law. The court asked the education deputy secretary to explain whether the newly-appointed directors belong to the private sector.
The

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court (SC) will resume the hearing today (Monday) of a presidential reference to reopen the case of former premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani will resume the hearing at 11.30am today.
At the last hearing, the court had pointed out flaws in the reference and asked the government to frame specific questions of law about the controversial

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court on Friday allowed Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Gauhar Tabish to submit his comments on a contempt-of-court application in the next hearing.
On behalf of the KESC CEO, Barrister Kumail Ahmed Sherazi appeared before a division bench, comprising Chief Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Hassan Azhar Rizvi, and requested the court to grant his client further time to submit comments in the application moved by Syed

ISLAMABAD - Giving priority to the government's review petition against the NRO verdict, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry delayed the hearings of petitions against the 18th Amendment, originally scheduled to be held on April 18, till the third week of May subject to availability of the bench.
The CJP said in a brief order that the hearings had been adjourned because of the hearing of the review plea against the NRO verdict scheduled to be

ISLAMABAD - Hearing a petition against the worsening law and order in Balochistan, the Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request by the advocate general for conducting in-camera hearing on the case. A three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani was hearing a petition filed by the Balochistan High Court Bar Association president against target killings, abductions for ransom and the overall poor law and order in

ISLAMABAD - Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice (r) Hamid Ali Mirza on Friday adjourned the hearing of a reference against nine members of the PML-Q Unification Bloc until April 23.
Representing the nine members of Unification Bloc members who parted the ways with PML-Q, Barrister Akram Sheikh contended before the CEC that he had no authority to conduct hearing on the case after the 18th Amendment.
"Per law, CEC cannot hear this reference until the completion of the

LAHORE - An accountability court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of a reference filed against former WAPDA and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Lieutenant General (r) Zahid Ali Akbar until April 14.
Earlier, Zahid's relatives' counsel sought time to file the reply of two petitions filed by National Accountability Bureau (NAB). A reference has been filed against the former WAPDA chairman accusing him of making illegal assets worth billions of rupees in name of his relatives.