Tag: Law

LAHORE - A man shot his sister in law dead over a monetary issue in the Sherankot Police precincts on Monday. The deceased was identified as 22-years-old Salma Bibi resident of Abu Bakar Street in Sherakot.
Police said that Salma Bibi contracted marriage with a resident of Shadbagh Area about two years ago but soon after marriage, difference between Salma and her husband arose over which she filed a case for divorce in the concerned court with the help of her brother in law

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry while hearing the petition filed by the PCS officers to seek cancellation of the case against them, regretted that today the people of every class have make it a routine to take law into their hand and hold protest on any issue.
The Chief Justice also appeared not happy with the strike, boycott and the step taken by the petitioners which amount to taking the law into their hand. The Court remarked those who take

DHAKA - Riot police patrolled the streets of the Bangladeshi capital on Monday as a strike called by Islamic parties to protest a proposed law favouring female equality brought much of the country to a halt.
The parties, known as the Islamic Law Implementation Committee, called the strike to protest against the government's move to pass laws ensuring equal property and inheritance rights for women in the Muslim-majority country.
Most shops, businesses and schools in Dhaka

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

ISLAMABAD - Senators from Balochistan on Friday put their voice together to draw the government's attention towards the "very alarming" law and order situation in the province. Speaking on points of order in the Senate, Senator Ismail Buledi, Hasil Bazenjo, Rehana Yahya Baloch, Lashkari Raisani, Kalsoom Perveen and Mohabbat Khan Marri expressed their concern over the killing of innocent people and asked the government to do the needful for the betterment in Balochistan. "Mutilated

KARACHI - The draft of the law to ban sale of uniodised salt and for making salt iodisation compulsory has been finalised and is set to be presented before the Sindh Assembly, Special Health Secretary Dr Suresh Kumar said on Monday. Addressing a public awareness seminar, which was organised by the provincial chapter of the MicroNutrient Initiative (MI) in collaboration with the United Nations Children's Fund, Kumar said that compulsory salt iodisation is one of the prerequisites to

ISLAMABAD - A contempt petition was filed with the Supreme Court on Monday seeking punishment to Masood Chishti, the law secretary, for not implementing the apex court's order over recommendations of the Judicial Commission for the appointment of high court judges. Munir Hussain Bhatti and Kamran Murtaza filed the petition under Articles 187, 190 and 204 of the constitution read with Order XXVII of the Supreme Court Rules 1980 and all other enabling constitutional and statutory

KARACHI- Media Coordinator to Sindh government Taj Haider Sunday said the persons, who became the citizens of Sindh in accordance with the citizenship law, were eligible for registration under the forthcoming census in the province but double entry would be deemed as a violation of law.
In a statement, he said those who come to Sindh from other provinces, were Pakistani citizens. Taj Haider, also the general-secretary of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Sindh, said a single entry

DAMASCUS/AMMAN - The decision to lift emergency rule in Syria, which has been in place since 1963, has "already been made", a presidential adviser said Sunday. "The decision to lift the emergency law has already been made. But I do not know about the time frame," Buthaina Shaaban told AFP in an interview at her office.
Syria's emergency law, put in place when the ruling Baath party rose to power in March 1963, imposes restrictions on public gatherings and movement and authorises

QUETTA - Balochistan Governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi Wednesday expressed his dissatisfaction over the law and order situation in the province. Talking to newsmen after an awards ceremony held at Governor House in connection with the Pakistan Day, Magsi observed that the incidents of kidnapping for ransom were growing rapidly. When asked about government's failure to ensure security situation, he said, "Judges, lawyers and even women are being abducted while the killings continue and

309- Waiver (Afw) of qisas in qatl-i-amd:
(1) In the case of qatl-i-amd, an adult sane wali may, at any time and without any compensation, waive his right of qisas: Provided that the right of qisas shall not be waived; (a) where the Government is the wali, or (b) where the right of qisas vests in a minor or insane.
(2) Where a victim has more than one Wali any one of them may waive his right of qisas: Provided that the wali who does not waive the right of qisas shall be

SAHIWAL - Regional Police Officer Dr Arif Mushtaq Chaudhry has asked the citizens to cooperate with, and assist, police to maintain law and order effectively. He said this while talking to a delegation of Citizens-Police Liaison Committee in his office. Chairman Sh Azmat Saleem, Convener Syed Alamdar Hussain Shah, Abraham Azeem Daniel, District Bar President Malik Muhammad Hussain, Rotary International former assistant governor Chaudhry Abdul Quyyom and Mian Saghir Anjum were also

MANAMA - Bahrain King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa declared martial law on Tuesday as his government struggled to quell an uprising by the island's Shia majority that has drawn in troops from Saudi Arabia. The three-month state of emergency will hand wholesale power to Bahrain's security forces, stoking sectarian tensions in one of the Gulf's most politically volatile nations.
Disturbances continued to shake the kingdom through the day. A hospital source said two men, one Bahraini

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly Standing Committee on Human Rights Friday criticised the law-enforcing agencies, especially police, over their complete failure to maintain law and order situation. "They are even involved in torture, substandard prosecution and registration of false cases," it further observed.
The committee held a meeting at the Parliament House with Riaz Fatyana in the chair.
Committee members Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan, Fauzia Habib, Dr Mehreen Bhutto, Dr

KARACHI - At a time when the provincial assembly is struggling to make new laws, civil servants in Sindh continue to be held in check with General (retd) Musharraf's draconian decree Removal from Service (Special Powers) Ordinance (RSO)-2000 - a law that has not only been repealed by the National Assembly but also scrapped by the provincial assemblies of Punjab, Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa.
The RSO-2000 provided absolute power to the government of the time to remove those

GUJRANWALA - JUI-F leader Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman has said that democracy is at its lowest level in the country as unannounced martial law persists in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa while freedom movement in Balochistan and lawlessness in Interior Sindh, Karachi and even in Punjab are on the rise. He was talking to newsmen during his brief visit to the city to inquire after the health of former MNA Qazi Hameed Ullah at his residence.
"A united opposition can strengthen democracy as well as

ISLAMABAD - Almost all of the top officials in the Law Ministry continue to work on a contractual basis in blatant violation of Supreme Court orders telling the government not to hire any retirees on contract. "Law Secretary Masood Chishti is working on contract and so is the case with five senior joint secretaries Attaullah Bangash, Syed Rafique Shah, Baqir Ali Rana, Dr Riaz and Manzoor Mirza. They are all working on a contractual basis," an informed source told Pakistan Today on