Tag: Legal

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court on Thursday summoned the Pakistan Army's legal officer (deputy judge advocate-general) Headquarters Corps V, Karachi, the directors general (DGs) of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Military Intelligence (MI) and Pakistan Rangers, and the Sindh home secretary on four different constitutional petitions seeking comments on missing persons.
The SHC division bench comprising Chief Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany and Justice Ghulam Sarwar Korai issued

FAISALABAD - A delegation of Child Rights Committee (CRC) visited the district jail to have a firsthand knowledge of the minor children being brought up in prison cells under the care of their mothers.
The CRC is a social welfare organisation working in coordination with Society for the Protection of Rights of Children (SPORC). The visit aimed at focusing on the wellbeing of the children who are living in jails just to stay in the loving laps of their mothers. The programme was

LAHORE - Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court Tuesday directed Pakistan Railways authorities to pay by February 14 salaries of its legal advisers, outstanding for the last month. On the petition of advocate, Arshad Virk, the court warned the Railyways high ups against holding back salaries of grade 17 to Grade 22 officers upon paying the respondents on the said date.
An executive officer of the department assured the court of paying the legal advisers by that said

JERUSALEM - Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip and its deadly raid on a flotilla of aid ships bound for the coastal enclave last year conform with international law, an Israeli probe concluded on Sunday.
The May 2010 raid, in which nine Turkish activists were killed, soured relations between Ankara and Israel and earned the Jewish state widespread international censure. Israel set up its own commission of inquiry into the raid, headed by former judge Yaakov Tirkel, after

ISLAMABAD - The penalty of Rs 1 million on two private TV channels, Waqt and Samaa, was imposed after giving them ample opportunity to show cause and explain their positions, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) said in a press release on Tuesday.
These channels had projected terrorists and had aired scenes of blood while covering the incident of assassination of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer besides repeatedly airing the interview of the assassin in

LAHORE - The Sunni Tehreek would provide complete legal assistance to former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer's assassin Mumtaz Qadri, Sunni Ittehad Council Chairman Fazal Karim said on Sunday.
He was speaking at a religious conference at the Aiwan-e-Iqbal Auditorium. Karim condemned protests in Taseer's favour saying that no civil society or non-governmental organisations (NGO) ever held a protest against killings of Sunnis in terrorist attacks at the Jamia Naeemia, Nishtar Park

KARACHI - A lawyer for leg-spinner Danish Kaneria warned Saturday he may go to court if Pakistan's cricket authorities do not clear his client of suspicions of match-fixing.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) omitted the 30-year-old Kaneria from 30-man squad for next month's World Cup and the Test series now under way in New Zealand, after his arrest in England on suspicion of corruption last year.
The leg-spinner was arrested in May on charges of spot-fixing during a Pro40

ISLAMABAD - Syed Naeem Bokhari, counsel for Justice Jehanzaib Rahim told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that seven-member bench's restraining order of Nov 3,2007 had no legal status as it was issued without issuing notices and hearing the attorney general and other parties concerned.
He said his client took oath on Nov 4, 2007, when he noticed that the chief justice and judges had been installed in the Supreme Court and similarly the chief justices and judges in the provincial

LAHORE - The lawyers' community condemned Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer's assassination in strong words and expressed deep shock over increasing intolerance and religious extremism in society. People's Lawyers Forum (PLF) Punjab strongly condemned the unfortunate assassination of Taseer and termed it a cowardly act by enemies of Pakistan and democracy.
PLF Senior Vice President Malik Nasir Awan and Additional General Secretary Rana Sufyan Arshad said that Taseer was a great

Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher has won a fight with a porn company as the firm agreed to remove his name from promotional material for a tape. He threatened to sue after Vivid Entertainment bosses named him in a press release for their forthcoming adult video featuring Brittney Jones, who claims to have Kutcher.
The press release declared: "Ashton's fans will undoubtedly enjoy seeing what the star himself may have experienced." The firm's boss Steve Hirsch initially dismissed the

MUMBAI - The new owners of English Premier League side Blackburn Rovers, Indian poultry firm Venky's, are facing a claim for more than five million dollars for allegedly reneging on a proposed joint venture deal. Mumbai-based businessman Saurin Shah told AFP he had issued a legal notice to the firm over a proposed tie-up for the Blackburn bid between Venky's and his investment firm, Qubic Group.
The notice alleged that Venky's, which completed the deal in November for 23 million

LAHORE: Pakistan's discarded opener Imran Farhat on Wednesday threatened to sue a British-based marketing agent unless he apologise for naming him in a spot-fixing scandal. "Through our London-based lawyer, Farhat has sent a legal notice to (Mazhar) Majeed asking him to prove his allegation. If he fails to do so or to apologise, then we will take further action," Farhat's father-in-law Mohammad Ilyas told AFP.
The 28-year-old opener, left out of Pakistan's Twenty20 and Test

PARIS: Britney Spears is set to take legal action over reports that her boyfriend had viciously beaten her, according to the star's management. Star magazine first claimed that the troubled pop star had been abused by Jason Trawick, alleging he had given the singer a black eye and that he had cheated on her with a teenager.
Now Radar Online has posted phone recordings where a woman - reportedly Spears - claims that Trawick had "beat on me." The conversation is purportedly with

LAHORE: The legal fraternity, including Lahore High Court (LHC) judges, have welcomed the nomination of Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry by the Judicial Commission as the next LHC chief justice (CJ).
He would assume the post after sitting LHC CJ Khawaja Muhammad Sharif would retire on December 8 after reaching the age of superannuation. After receiving news of Justice Ijaz's elevation, all LHC judges , gathered in Justice Ijaz's chamber and congratulated him on his elevation.

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Pakistan cricket authorities said Tuesday they were weighing up legal action against British tabloid The Sun over allegations of spot-fixing after an investigation cleared their players.
The Sun tipped off the International Cricket Council (ICC) that it had evidence that the scoring pattern of Pakistan's innings in the Oval one-day against England on September 17 was pre-arranged with bookmakers. The ICC launched an immediate inquiry, but on October 13 cleared the

ISLAMABAD: The tax returns of former president Pervez Musharraf could not go public on Wednesday due to the legal controversy over handing and taking over of the record between the officials of Federal Board of Revenue and the Auditor General at the Public Accounts Committee meeting.
The legal row between FBR and AGP high-ups enraged PAC member Khawaja Asif who walked out of the meeting, saying the former president was calling shots from London and the officials of FBR and AGP