Tag: Law

Despite the passage of two years, the government and the opposition have failed to reach a consensus on the new draft of the accountability...

Despite the dismal performance of law enforcement agencies in containing the law and order situation in the province, particularly targeted killings, the Sindh government...

Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said Islam has underlined the need to have a society based on equal application of rules...

Two policemen manning a police picket on the main Mirpurkhas city road were robbed by unidentified armed men on late Tuesday night. Police said that...

Bahrain lifted martial law on Wednesday in what the government hopes will be a sign to tourists and business of a return to normal,...

President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday urged the Balochistan government to take all possible steps for maintaining law and order in the province besides...

Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Asma Jahangir on Friday said lawyers “believe in the supremacy of constitution and rule of law instead of...

Social problems have become a real challenge for Pakistan’s progress because in the presence of such issues, it is difficult for a country to...

President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday singed the National Defence University (NDU) Bill, 2011 into a law, which provides for the establishment of the...

The Supreme Court told the government’s counsel Dr Babar Awan on Wednesday to assist it in questions of law in the presidential reference to...

The federal Law Ministry, which is supposed to be responsible for protecting the sanctity of laws and rules of the land, has been caught...

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday formally approved five questions of law framed by the Law Ministry to be clubbed with the presidential reference in the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto case.
Earlier, the federal cabinet approved the five legal questions and later Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani sent them as his advice to the Presidency for formal approval. A well-placed source told Pakistan Today on Wednesday that the law secretary would submit the legal questions in the

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.

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court (SC) pointed out on Monday that the presidential reference to reopen the case of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lacked questions of law upon which the court's opinion could be sought under Article 186 of the constitution, and told government's counsel Dr Babar Awan to frame a question of law in the reference. A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani was

President Asif Ali Zardari signed the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Bill of 2011 into law on Monday, a piece of legislation that grants statutory bail to suspects under trial and convicts whose trials and appeals have not been disposed of within a prescribed time limit. The bill was signed into law at a special ceremony held at Aiwan-e-Sadr.

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari signed the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Bill of 2011 into law on Monday, a piece of legislation that grants statutory bail to suspects under trial and convicts whose trials and appeals have not been disposed of within a prescribed time limit. The bill was signed into law at a special ceremony held at Aiwan-e-Sadr. Presidential Spokesman Farhatullah Babar told reporters that henceforth, a prisoner under trial would be entitled to

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Interior Rehman Malik on Sunday said that the government was seriously mulling to include criminal charges in the harassment law, including three years imprisonment.
He was addressing the concluding day of conference on 'Gender Discrimination in Media and Capacity Building for Female Journalists' arranged by the National Press Club (NPC). Malik said that the government would implement the "Anti-Sexual Harrasment Act" at grass-root level and introduce