Tag: Judges

Nawaz doesn’t want retired judges, bureaucrats to be caretaker PM: reports

Former premier Nawaz Sharif does not want a retired judge or bureaucrat to be appointed as the caretaker prime minister, a private media outlet...

IHC suspends order for vacating residences from judges

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Tuesday suspended the notification of Ministry of Housing and Works regarding vacating government residences from lower judiciary's judges and...

District judges file a petition against Housing Ministry

A suspended judge among petitioners who file 26-pages long writ petition ISLAMABAD: In what seems to be a spillover effect of differences, rifts and tussles...

PBC seeks ‘more effective’ accountability of judges

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has decided to approach the Supreme Court (SC) for making accountability of judges more effective. The council also decided...

SHC orders new transfers, positing of district & sessions judges

KARACHI: The Chief Justice and other judges of the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday ordered the transfers and postings of District & Sessions...

Judges grant time to IO for submitting charge-sheet in Intizar murder...

KARACHI: A local court on Wednesday granted more time to the investigation officer probing into the murder of Intizar Ahmed in the city’s posh locality...

‘Sharifs want to dictate judgments again’, says PPP chief

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday alleged that the Sharif brothers wanted to "dictate judgments to the judiciary once again". “We...

SC seeks list of federal officers with dual nationalities

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan on Wednesday asked the federal departments to submit lists of all officers holding dual nationalities within 15 days. Chief...

LHC CJ reshuffles 21 district judges

LAHORE: The district and sessions judges in 21 districts have been transferred as per the orders of the new Lahore High Court (LHC) chief...

Six more SHC judges take oath, brings total strength to 39

KARACHI: Six judges including a lady judge on Tuesday took oath as the Sindh High Court (SHC) additional judges. The SHC Chief Justice Ahmed Ali...

Talal denies speaking against judges, courts

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Interior Talal Chaudhry on Friday denied speaking against the judges or courts during public meetings and media talks. “I neither made...

Probe into dual nationality of judicial officers ordered: report

LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah has issued a directive to the sessions and district judges, instructing them to...

SC to review security arrangements for judges following ‘bad governance’ stance

KARACHI: Taking a stern stance on bad governance in Sindh, the Supreme Court of Pakistan will review the security arrangements for the Karachi registry, rest...

Former senior judges join criticism of India’s chief justice

NEW DELHI: Four former senior Indian judges on Sunday released a letter in support of a group of Supreme Court (SC) judges who on...

Former Indian ASG Sharan says CJI, SC judges should talk it...

NEW DELHI: A day after the divide in the Supreme Court was brought out into the open for the first time, Former Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Amarendra Sharan on Saturday...

CJP orders appointment of judges across Pakistan by January 19

  ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Thursday gave a week’s deadline time for all vacant positions for judges to be...

Nawaz refuses to back-off, says courts incapable of trying dictators

Differences not with SC but with certain judges, says former premier PML-N president recalls Justice Azmat Saeed's 'hurtful' statement that 'Nawaz Sharif...