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Only 15 hours after the newly-appointed Capital City Police Officer’s (CCPO) announcement of his ‘aggressive policing policy during his maiden press briefing as Lahore’s...

In Pakistan’s history, the year of 2010 will be remembered as “year of air disasters” as just in four month’s short span 185 people...

The Punjab government on Monday appointed Justice (r) Nazir Akhtar as chairman (non official member) of the Board of Management of the Allama Iqbal...

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari Wednesday administered oath to Senator Maula Bakhsh Chandio as minister for Law and Justice at a ceremony held at the Aiwan-e-Sadr. The oath-taking ceremony was attended among others by Prime Minister Yusaf Raza Gilani, Chairman Senate Farook H Naek, deputy chairman senate, deputy speaker national assembly, attorney general, some federal ministers, ministers of state, parliamentarians, federal secretaries and other high officials.

WASHINGTON - The US believes that Pakistan is carrying out its pledged cooperation towards bringing perpetrators of 2008 Mumbai attacks to justice, a US State Department spokesman said on Wednesday.
"They (Pakistanis) pledged their cooperation in bringing these perpetrators to justice, and we believe they're going to be, they're carrying that pledge out," acting spokesman Mark Toner said at the daily briefing, APP reported.
Toner said in the aftermath of the attacks in 2008,

ISLAMABAD - I miss my father so much and I want him around but it has been ages since I saw him last, said little girl, Mehlab Baloch, with tearful eyes while narrating her ordeal as a kid of one of several missing persons from Balochistan. She was talking to Pakistan Today after a press conference on Wednesday held by the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), a sister organisation of International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons. The news conference had been arranged at the end

WASHINGTON - Washington believes that Pakistan is carrying out its pledged cooperation towards bringing perpetrators of 2008 Mumbai attacks to justice, a U.S. State Department spokesman said.
"They (Pakistanis) pledged their cooperation to bring these perpetrators to justice, and we believe they're going to be, they're carrying that pledge out," acting spokesman Mark Toner said at the daily briefing.
Toner said in the aftermath of the attacks in 2008, the U.S. made very

KARACHI - The lawyers' fraternity of the city observed a black day on Saturday to condemn the attack on City Courts, Tahir Plaza and Malir Courts on April 9, 2008 in which lawyers' offices were set on fire.
Ten people including two lawyers - Altaf Abbasi and Sheryar Sheri - and their clients were killed in the Tahir Plaza arson and attack and 14 more people died in the ensuing violence. On the call of the Karachi Bar Association (KBA), lawyers boycotted court proceedings wearing

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly's Standing Committee on Law and Justice is likely to meet during the upcoming session of the Lower House to thrash out differences between the PPP and the PML-N on a new accountability bill particularly on the qualification of the chairman of the accountability commission. The PPP and the PML-N are struggling since April 2009 to develop consensus on the proposed accountability commission and the meetings between the PML-N four member committee and the

KARACHI - "I was kidnapped and forcefully married by Abdul Rashid Magsi with the help of local police seven years ago. Every day before leaving the house, Magsi used to lock me inside. During the period, even my parents were not allowed to see me and being poor, they could do nothing," said R, while narrating her ordeal to media persons.
For seven years, she was locked inside a house. She faced the wrath of her cruel captor, who even married her forcefully. She finally made her

LAHORE - Punjab Bar Council (PBC) has returned a widow's application against a lawyer, who had beaten her in the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) premises a few days ago, asking her to submit the process fee.
Bushra Sayeda, 60, the complainant, said that she repeatedly approached PBC against Nasir Khan Banuzai who beat her in the bar's compound. She said that she also made a special request to the PBC's senior member and its representative in Judicial Commission, Rai

ISLAMABAD - Addressing the meeting of the National Judiciary Policy Committee on Saturday, Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry said to provide cheap and quick justice is the responsibility of the state.
He said Judicial Policy has been evolved to ensure the access to the justice. He said almost all targets of the National Judicial Policy have been achieved

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari has decided to retract his decision of reappointing Justice (r) Deedar Hussain Shah as National Accountability Bureau chairman. The PML-N has decided to propose the name of Justice (r) Khalilur Rehman Ramday for the position.
Sources told Online that after consulting Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, Senate Chairman Farooq Naik and other close aides, President Zardari decided to accept the Supreme Court's verdict regarding NAB Chairman

ISLAMABAD - The government has decided to give another important responsibility to Justice (r) Deedar Hussain Shah after being as NAB chairman. President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday contacted Justice Shah and informed him about the decision.
Sources told Online that after deciding not to reappoint Justice (r) Shah as NAB chairman, the government decided to give him another important responsibility The sources revealed that the Presidency had been in contact with Justice (r) Shah

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif announced establishment of a Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) in the province at a meeting of Punjab Security Board at Chief Minister's Secretariat on Sunday. The meeting lasted more than three hours.
The CM said terrorism was the biggest impediment in the way of progress and prosperity and there is a need for making rapid progress for rooting out this menace from the society. He said that reforming the criminal

KARACHI - Justice Sajjad Ali Shah was on Tuesday assigned to conduct an inquiry over the acquittal of suspects in a money laundering case and submit his detailed report before March 11. Sindh High Court (SHC) Chief Justice Mushir Alam has initiated a probe on the directives of Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who took suo motu notice of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General's allegations regarding the acquittal of the suspects in the Khanani and

KARACHI - US President Barrack Obama and the United Kingdom have condemned and expressed deep sorrow and grief over the assassination of minorities' minister Shahbaz Bhatti. "I am deeply saddened by the assassination of Pakistan's Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti today in Islamabad, and condemn in the strongest possible terms this horrific act of violence," a White House statement quoted the president as saying. The statement was issued by Office of the Press Secretary on