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Lahore - The Lahore High Court on Wednesday reserved verdict on a writ petition challenging ban on journalists' entry into anti-terrorism courts, National Accountability Bureau courts, special courts and tribunals. Earlier, the court had formed a committee to resolve the issue. Representatives of Federal Union of Journalists, Punjab Union of Journalists, Court Reporter Association and federal and Punjab governments were included in the committee which had submitted its

Lahore - The Lahore High Court on Wednesday ordered Johar Town police to register a case and arrest seven people who kidnapped and gang raped a girl for 22 days. Justice Saghir Qadri ordered police to get the girl medically examined and register a case against Mahi, Kurshid and others. In pursuance of the court orders, police produced the 20-year-old girl in the court who stated that the accused tortured and raped her. The court passed this order on the petition of Javed who through

LAHORE - Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Tuesday issued a notice to the Punjab Food Department on a petition challenging procurement of polypropylene bags for storing wheat.
Barrister Syed Ali Zafar filed the petition submitting that procurement and use of polypropylene bags was not only harmful for human health and environment but also against the Punjab Procurement Rules 2009. He said that when wheat, which is a living organism, is stored in these bags

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Monday issued a notice to the attorney general for March 14 on a petition challenging Diplomatic and Consular Privileges Act, 1972, calling it against fundamental human rights guaranteed in the constitution.
Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry passed the order on a petition filed by petitioner-counsel Muhammad Azhar Siddique. The petitioner-counsel contended the act was in conflict with the fundamental rights as envisaged in the Constitution 1973

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Monday sought assistance of deputy attorney general (DAG) on 2 petitions requesting shifting of Raymond to Lahore and confiscating his diplomatic record, if any, in before it is tempered by the government to save Raymond.
The petitions were field by Advocate Rana Ilamudin and Barrister Javed Iqbal Jaffrey. Chief justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry after hearing arguments of the petitioner counsels handed over copies of the petitions to DAG Naveed Inayat

LAHORE - Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry has proposed 24 new names from lawyers and districts and session judges (D&SJ) to the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) for appointment as additional/ad-hoc judges in the Lahore High Court (LHC), sources told Pakistan Today.
According to sources, the proposed list includes names of 18 lawyers and six D&SJs including LHC Registrar Abdul Sattar Asghar and a former LHC registrar. According to sources,

LAHORE - A three-member Lahore High Court (LHC) bench on Monday directed the attorney general (AG) to submit the federal government's reply until March 10 on a petition challenging remission granted to Interior Minister Senator Rehman Malik by President Asif Ali Zardari.
Save Judiciary Committee Media Advisor Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi filed the petition submitting that the president misused his powers under Article 45 of the constitution to pardon Malik.
The petitioner's counsel

LAHORE - Barrister Javed Iqbal Jaffrey on Saturday filed a petition in the Lahore High Court asking that all certified copies of diplomatic record, if any of Raymond Allen Davis be submitted to the court immediately to stop issuance of the same in the backdates by way of forgery and tempering.
Barrister Jaffrey contended that the court should issue a preemptive order to the federal government against possible tempering of US citizen's record for his benefit in the larger

LAHORE - Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry will hear a petition on February 21 seeking that former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and PPP information secretary Fauzia Wahab be summoned to give contradictory statements on the issue of diplomatic immunity to US citizen Raymond Davis and reveal facts before the court to substantiate their respective statements.
Advocate Azhar Siddique filed the petition in which he said Qureshi had publicly stated that Davis

LAHORE - A petition was filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) seeking shifting of US national Raymond Davis to the Lahore Fort and an ISI inquiry into the case. Rana Ilmddin filed the petition submitting that Davis was on a special mission in Pakistan, which could be harmful for the country's solidarity.
He said that the accused was spending his days of detention as a guest, as his 'residence' at the Kot Lakhpat Jail consists of two barrack and 18 rooms. The petitioner alleged

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Friday dismissed an application for early hearing of Shumaila Rana's petition seeking restoration of her Punjab Assembly membership, because there is a shortage of judges at LHC given the burden of pending cases.
Former MPA Shumaila Rana, accused of credit card theft, filed the application praying to the court for an early hearing, which had been pending in the court since mid 2010. The petitioner counsel

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Friday ordered the Punjab Police to take action in accordance with the law against the US Consulate driver who ran over a citizen, Ibadur Rahman, while ostensibly trying to rescue Raymond Davis.
While hearing a petition by Ijazul Rehman, the deceased's brother, seeking free and fair investigation into the matter, LHC Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry also asked authorities to record the statements of the complainant (Ijazul Rehman) and

LAHORE - Chief Justice of Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry on Monday observed if courts start taking action on news published in newspapers, the situation will deteriorate further.
CJ made these remarks during the hearing of several writ petitions challenging holding of dual office by President Asif Ali Zardari, when petitioner's counsel AK Dogar questioned reputation of Zardari by referring to different newspapers reports.
Dogar said that the Supreme

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Monday warned Pakistan Railways (PR) authorities, if the department remains unable to pay salaries to its legal advisors, huge residences of officials at Mayo Garden would be sold for this purpose.
Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed made these observations after Railways' legal advisor Sarfraz Cheema stated that salaries have been paid to some legal advisors only. Railways sought time to pay salaries to rest of the legal advisors as department is facing

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday granted pre-arrest protective bail to former federal religious affairs minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi until February 17 in the Haj corruption scam. LHC CJ Ijaz Chaudhry asked Kazmi to move the IHC for the bail's confirmation with a fresh petition, as the matter fell in the territorial jurisdiction of Islamabad where the Haj scam case was lodged against him by the FIA. Khurram Latif Khosa represented Kazmi in the court. The court directed the

LAHORE - Lahore High Court Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Wednesday issued pre-admission notices to the Punjab government and other respondents on a petition challenging the establishment of Liberty Park and Ride Shopping Plaza. Judge directed the respondents to file the replies till February 17.
The petition is moved by seven petitioners including Muhammad Azhar Sidduque, chairman of a law firm, Mohammad Saleem Hafeez, Mian Mohammad Haroon of Hotel MelRose Inn, Arshad Kareem

LAHORE - Lahore High Court Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of a petition against the removal of four additional judges by the Parliamentary Committee after the petitioner counsel sought time to argue on maintainability of the petition.
The court raised the question if the parliamentary committee's matter could be taken up under writ jurisdiction of the court. The court prima facie was of the view that taking up an issue related to the parliament could