Tag: Legal

All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) Secretary General Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif on Tuesday issued legal notice for compensation worth $50 million to British newspaper...

The legal fraternity has expressed serious reservations over the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)-led government’s protests against the Lahore High Court (LHC)’s verdict in PPP...

Prominent legal experts on Thursday welcomed the decision of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on president’s dual offices as it was strictly in accordance...

ISLAMABAD - The government, the 18th Amendment Implementation Commission and the Inter-Provincial Coordination Ministry have so far failed to devise a mechanism to settle previous years' audit objections of the devolved ministries and their attached departments.
Members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) fear that legal and technical hitches in the process may cause a loss of billions to the national exchequer unless the mechanism is devised in time. Like many other

ISLAMABAD - In a major development on Wednesday, the government assured Chinese investors that it would expedite progress on removing the legal barriers that are hindering investment of an estimated $15 billion in the country's hydel power sector.
An official source said a 10-member delegation led by Chinese Three Gorges Project Corporation (CTGPC) Chairman Cao Guangjing spent a busy day meeting the president, finance minister and other senior officials to sort out the

TOKYO - The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant said on Tuesday it had found water with 5 million times the legal limit of radioactivity as it struggles for a fourth week to contain the world's biggest nuclear disaster in quarter of a century.
Underlining the concern over spreading radiation, the government said it was considering imposing radioactivity restrictions on seafood for the first time in the crisis after contaminated fish were found in seas well south of

ISLAMABAD - The Enrolment Committee of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) headed by Justice Javed Iqbal, senior most judge of the Supreme Court, registered 13 legal practitioners as advocates of the apex court on Sunday.
The decision was made at a meeting which was also attended by other members Syed Qalb-i-Hassan and Muhammad Yaseen Azad. 18 applications out of a total of 26 came under consideration while 13 applicants were found eligible for enrolment. They include: Anis Muhammad

KASUR - Legal aid would be provided to the prisoners involved in minor crimes, said Interior Parliamentary Secretary Ghulam Mujtaba Kharl during his visit to District Jail Kasur. He said the visits were being paid to the jails to resolve the problems of the prisoners on the direction of President Asif Ali Zardari Pakistan People's Party's (PPP) government was making policies at national level, he further said and added that government preferred to transform death sentence into life

KARACHI - The PPP is all set to face the contempt notices issued by the Supreme Court both on legal and political fronts.
PPP's Provincial Secretary General Taj Haider is ready to appear in the Supreme Court on April 1, however, he would seek more time to submit his reply on his reaction on the apex court's verdict against former NAB chairman Justice (retd) Deedar Hussain Shah,.
Talking to Pakistan Today on Wednesday, he said he had received a 350-page notice and needs

TOKYO - The levels of radioactive iodine found in seawater near Japan's stricken nuclear power plant was 4,385 times more than the legal limit on Thursday, the nuclear safety agency said.
The level was the highest recorded since the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant that was triggered by an earthquake and tsunami on March 11, Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency Deputy Director-General Hidehiko Nishiyama told a news briefing.
He added that this did not present a health

SARAJEVO - Bosnia's international peace envoy decreed on Monday a regional parliament representing the Muslim-Croat population can continue to function despite a ruling it was formed illegally. The decision by the international community's High Representative in Bosnia stressed the need for a functioning government in the Balkan nation still beset by divisions 15 years after Europe's deadliest fighting since World War Two.
The dispute concerns the parliament for the Muslim-Croat

LAHORE - Pakistan Football Federation President Faisal Saleh Hayat was appointed the chairman of the AFC Legal Committee during the AFC Executive Committee Meet at Kuala Lumpur on Thursday. The new AFC Executive Committee met at AFC House for the first time under the chairmanship of AFC President Mohamed Bin Hammam.
The AFC Executive Committee was elected at the 24th AFC Congress held in Doha on January 6, 2011. Hammam extended his condolences to the people of Japan and the Japan

LAHORE - The President of the Pakistan Table Tennis Federation has been served legal notice by Sajjad Asgher, General Secretary Punjab Table Tennis Association for unconstitutional, malafide and illegal acts.
In a e-mail message to this scribe, Sajjad stated that the PTTF President's actions clearly show bias and discrimination towards the largest table tennis association of Pakistan, which has always stood for transparency, equity and justice and management of table tennis in an

ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs has not replied to the request forwarded by the Foreign Office (FO) around 15 days back, which sought its legal opinion on the issue of the US national Raymond Davis.
A source in the ministry told Pakistan Today on Saturday that the Foreign Office had sent a request seeking legal opinion on the issue involving the murder of two Pakistanis by Raymond Davis. The FO had also provided all the available record of Davis

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Monday sought the government's stance on the legal status of PCO judges after non validation of November 3, 2007 actions by parliament.
A seven-member special bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany and Justice Amir Hani Muslim was hearing intra-court appeals of dysfunctional and retired judges of

KARACHI - As there are hardly any car parking spaces in the densely populated city of Karachi, some opportunists have started making money by charging parking fee in different areas of the metropolis. Despite the fact that there is a ban on charging parking fee at open spaces in the city, the opportunists manage to extract between Rs 20 to 30 per vehicle from the public.
This business is under way in various areas of the city including Shahrah-e-Faisal, Nursery, PECHS and Saddar,

LAHORE - FIA Additional Director General Zafar Qureshi has been served a legal notice demanding a payment of Rs 50 million as a token compensation for defaming the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid and its leadership due to his intentional mala fide acts and misquoting the record of the court.
He was served the notice by Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain through Irfan Arif advocate. According to the legal notice, Qureshi had been warned of legal action, criminal as well as civil, if he failed