Tag: Iftikhar Chaudhry

New CEC to take oath today

Justice(r) Fakhruddin G Ebrahim will take oath as the new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) today (Monday). Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry will administer oath to...

Lawyers express solidarity with SC, CJ

The lawyers’ fraternity across the city observed a strike to express solidarity with the Supreme Court (SC) and Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry on Wednesday....

Chief justice to get International Jurist Award

The International Council of Jurists (ICJP) has conferred the prestigious International Jurists Award, 2012 on Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, in recognition...

SC orders NAB to arrest corrupt railways officials in three days

The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday directed NAB to arrest people involved in railways corruption within three days and ordered that the Railways Board...

Crime in Punjab

Complacency and micromanaging The Punjab government’s failure to curb rising crime rate in the province has resulted in a lower court issuing arrest warrants of...

The courts

All is not well Happy families are all alike, said Leo Tolstoy; all unhappy families, however, are unhappy in their own way. In Pakistan, the...

Sindh govt wants to have its way despite court orders

The Sindh government seems eager to immediately appoint law officers, despite the Sindh High Court’s stay order on the matter, Pakistan Today has learnt....

Of Bonapartists

India has some too The issue of the two army chiefs, in India and Pakistan, still dominate the discussions. Chief of Army Staff V K...