Tag: Judiciary

Despite the passage of over two years after the enforcement of National Judicial Policy mainly aimed at clearing heavy backlog, 135,512,0 cases of various...

Disappointing speculators who were expecting that the executive would use the parliament to take on the judiciary, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday...

The government wants to use parliament as a shield against the judiciary to hide its corruption, PML-N President Nawaz Sharif said on Monday. “By indulging...

PML-N president Mian Nawaz Sharif has said that judiciary will not be allowed to be knelt down and a resolution is being tabled by...

Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has said the government would act upon the rulings of the Supreme Court (SC), adding there was no...

PML-N president Nawaz Sharif has said supremacy of parliament is an acknowledged fact but it will not be allowed to strike judiciary. As per...

The government on Wednesday sent a clear message to the judiciary that all state institutions must act within their constitutional limits and the given...

The Lahore High Court chief justice has appointed Kazim Ali Malik, District and Sessions Judge (retired), as Director General Human Rights...

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said on Saturday that providing justice to the people was the basic responsibly of the judiciary...

Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Friday said the performance of the lower judiciary was not satisfactory, as corruption and delays...

The Punjab government has allocated Rs 693.368 million in the new budget for judiciary, which covers 79 schemes. A sum of 578.368 million rupees is...

The entire Lahore district judiciary on Monday observed a strike to protest against poor security arrangements at sessions and other courts premises in the...

LAHORE - Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rashid has said categorically that the judiciary and all the state departments were on board over the release of the US killer, Raymond Davis'.
He expressed these views while addressing a press conference at the office of Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Likeminded Punjab Information Secretary Mian Muhammad Asif. The Muttahida Muslim League (MML) provincial office bearers were also present on that occasion.
He lamented the people

LARKANA - President Asif Ali Zardari has described it as an obligation of the judiciary to clear the "black stains on its face" regarding the judicial murder of former prime minister and PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
"We are not seeking revenge. We want the history to record that a wrong was committed and it needs to be corrected," he said, adding that the presidential reference sent to the Supreme Court was meant to correct the record. President Zardari was addressing a large

ISLAMABAD - The entire judiciary of Pakistan is facing a backlog of 1.355869 million (13, 55, 869) cases of different nature. According to statistics, 20,539 cases are pending before the Supreme Court. 1,812 cases are pending before the Federal Shariat Court, 1, 29800 cases are pending before the Lahore High Court while the Sindh High Court has a backlog of 39461 cases.
The number of pending cases before the Peshawar High Court is 18283. Similarly 5662 cases are under

LAHORE - Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Asma Jahangir has said that the judiciary under Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was heading towards "judicial dictatorship", which was reflected by extra-lines of the (SC) judgement for removal of the NAB chairman and dubious working of the Judicial Commission (JC) on judges' extension.
In a special chat on "the logics of sitting judiciary" at her Lahore office, Asma vigorously attacked the

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has advised Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to call an all-parties conference, including the army and judiciary, to devise solutions to the country's problems. The prime minister, however, told reporters in Islamabad that he would respond to Shahbaz Sharif's proposal after going through the details. Shahbaz told reporters after the inauguration of a three-day anti-polio campaign at his residence in Lahore that two days ago he had