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On a writ petition filed by a girl against her father, accusing him of raping her, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday ordered...

On a writ petition filed by a girl against her father for raping her, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday issued notices to...

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) ordered on Tuesday the release of seven people who were acquitted in anti-terrorism cases but were taken into custody...

Islamabad High Court (IHC) has demanded a reply from Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan over breach of court’s orders to keep his movements restricted. According to...

Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal met Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif on Friday and discussed bilateral relations and matters of mutual interest....

ISLAMABAD - The recent petroleum price increase has been challenged in Islamabad High Court (IHC). The President of Human Rights Association of Pakistan, M Kokab Iqbal on Thursday filed a writ petition against the recent increase in petroleum and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) prices. The petitioner contended that the government's decision regarding increase in POL prices was against the article 9 of the constitution.
He said that instead of controlling corruption the government

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday issued notices to Capital Development Authority (CDA) and National Highway Authority (NHA) seeking their reply over a petition against toll plazas charging tax from locals. A single bench of IHC comprising Justice Riaz heard a petition filed by Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) against the toll plazas for charging residents of Islamabad.
The PTI through its lawyer made the CDA and NHA respondents for charging tax from the

ISLAMABAD - A petition was filed in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) by Chaudhry Attaur Rehman on Wednesday against the diplomatic shuttle bus service, which he claimed was charging too much (Rs 500) to transport visitors to foreign missions inside the Diplomatic Enclave.
A single bench of the IHC comprising Chief Justice Iqbal Hameed-ur-Rehman heard the case against the administration of the shuttle service and the Capital Development Authority (CDA). The petitioner's counsel told

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday was moved for the release of an accused Shahbaz Ahmed who had been arrested for hacking website of the Presidency. The accused filed an application to the High Court for his release in response to a case registered against him on July 18, 2010 by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on the charges of hacking website of the Presidency.
In the application, the accused claimed that he was falsely implicated in the case and he had

ISLAMABAD - An intra-court application has been moved to Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the IHC single bench decision for not quashing FIR and suspending of jail trial of Mumtaz Qadri, the assassin of Governor Salman Taseer.
Earlier, IHC single bench comprising of Justice Muhammad Anwar Kasi on January 20, had rejected two pleas of , seeking end of the jail trial and quashing of Fir registered under section (302), against the Mumtaz Qadri, Justice Anwar Kasi had said that

ISLAMABAD - A single bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) comprising Justice Muhammad Anwar Kasi on Friday issued notices to the officials of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for not recognizing special people's cricket association.
The court was hearing a petition filed by Pakistan Cricket Association for Physically Handicapped. Abdul Latif Kohkar, counsel for the petitioner, contended before the court that despite fulfilling all legal requirements, the association of handicapped

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday rejected two pleas seeking end of the trial of the assassin of former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, Mumtaz Qadri, and a quashment of the FIR registered against him under Section 302 for killing Taseer.
The petitioner, Malik Zafar Awan advocate, in two separate petitions, pleaded before Justice Muhammad Anwar Kasi, that Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code applied to those who committed unjustified murder.

ISLAMABAD - The Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Thursday assured all possible assistance to the chief justice and judges of the newly established Islamabad High Court (IHC) in making the IHC fully operational.
He was talking to the IHC Chief Justice Iqbal Hameedur Rehman and judges including Justice Muhammad Anwar Khan Kasi and Justice Riaz Ahmed Khan, who called on him at his chamber at the Supreme Court building.

ISLAMABAD - A constitutional petition challenging the 19th Amendment was filed in the Supreme Court on Monday which stated that the apex court should order the federal government and the Judicial Commission (JC) to refrain from appointment of judges of the Islamabad High Court (IHC).
Shahid Orakzai, a freelance journalist, filed the petition under Article 184(3) of the Constitution and made the Federation of Pakistan through Ministry of Law secretary and attorney general of

ISLAMABAD - Delay in the oath-taking ceremony of Islamabad High Court's (IHC) newly-appointed chief justice and other seven judges is irking litigants as well as lawyers, as the IHC has stopped admitting cases and petitions for the time being.
On the other hand, the Rawalpindi Bench of the Lahore High Court has also declined to admit cases of the residents of the federal capital, which fall within the jurisdiction of the IHC. And lawyers and litigants in the federal capital have

ISLAMABAD: The re-established Islamabad High Court (IHC) will start partial functioning today (Monday) by beginning admitting cases, a senior official of the Law Ministry told Pakistan Today on Sunday.
He said the IHC staff was already working since the last two months, whereas over 1,600 cases had also been shifted from Islamabad district courts to the IHC.
The official said the transfer of over 5,000 cases from the Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench to the IHC

LAHORE: Providing speedy justice to aggrieved parties has been my priority as a Lahore High Court (LHC) judge and I would continue the same as the Islamabad High Court (IHC) chief justice, Justice Iqbal Hameedur Rehman said on Tuesday.
Talking to Pakistan Today, Justice Rehman said that he would make efforts for providing justice to his fellow countrymen. He said that ever since becoming a judge, the court has been a worship place for him and by providing justice to people on