Tag: Moved

LHC moved to postpone Matric examinations

LAHORE - A petition was filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday seeking postponement of the Matriculation examinations and abolition of the objective portion. Azhar Siddique filed the petition while clubbing it with his earlier petition on the same issue.
The petitioner submitted that Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) has changed the objective questions procedure questions for Matriculation examinations starting from March 7. He said that students need

SC moved against Geo Super’s CEO

ISLAMABAD - A complaint was filed before Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry against the alleged misbehavior and manhandling of a lawyer for PEMRA by Mir Ibrahim Rehman, chief executive officer (CEO) of Geo Super TV channel. The complainant, PEMRA's lawyer Ali Raza, requested the CJP to take notice of the matter and order initiation of contempt proceedings against Rehman besides other legal action.

LHC moved against ‘traveling abroad NOC’

LAHORE - A petition has been filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) challenging condition of obtaining No Objection Certificates (NOCs) for citizens especially artists, students and journalists before traveling abroad. Advocate Noshab A Khan filed the petition saying the impugned decision taken by federal government was an infringement of civil liberty.
Petitioner said the democratic government's decision to consider such a possibility was disappointing, leave aside expound it

LHC moved for Davis’ diplomatic record

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

SC moved for quashing case against Qadri

ISLAMABAD - A lawyer on Monday filed a petition in the Supreme Court of Pakistan against Islamabad High Court's verdict of dismissing plea for quashing of the FIR and the trial of Salman Taseer's self-confessed assassin, Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri.
The appeal was filed by Zafar Awan advocate. Earlier on Jan 26, a division bench of the IHC had set aside an intra-court appeal filed by Awan seeking cancellation of case against Mumtaz Qadri, the police guard who was part of security

IHC moved for alleged hacker’s release

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday was moved for the release of an accused Shahbaz Ahmed who had been arrested for hacking website of the Presidency. The accused filed an application to the High Court for his release in response to a case registered against him on July 18, 2010 by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on the charges of hacking website of the Presidency.
In the application, the accused claimed that he was falsely implicated in the case and he had

IHC moved for quashing FIR against Qadri

ISLAMABAD - An intra-court application has been moved to Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the IHC single bench decision for not quashing FIR and suspending of jail trial of Mumtaz Qadri, the assassin of Governor Salman Taseer.
Earlier, IHC single bench comprising of Justice Muhammad Anwar Kasi on January 20, had rejected two pleas of , seeking end of the jail trial and quashing of Fir registered under section (302), against the Mumtaz Qadri, Justice Anwar Kasi had said that

SC moved for calling in army to secure Karachi

ISLAMABAD - In view of the volatile situation in Karachi, a constitutional petition was filed in the Supreme Court on Friday seeking direction to the federal government to issue a proclamation of emergency under Article 232 and call in armed forces under Article 245 to act in aid of civil power until negative elements were eliminated and the law and order situation became normal.
Tariq Asad advocate filed the petition under Article 184(3) making the federal government, the prime

inadequate knowledge of Islam – SC moved for Rehman Malik’s...

ISLAMABAD - A constitutional petition seeking Interior Minister Rehman Malik's disqualification for incorrectly reciting a written Quranic verse in a cabinet meeting was filed in the Supreme Court on Friday.
The petition was filed by Muhammad Tariq Asad advocate under Article 184(3) making the federal government, through the Cabinet's Secretariat secretary, the election commission of Pakistan through the chief election commissioner, the Senate chairman, the prime minister and

SC moved against Musharraf for high treason

ISLAMABAD
The Supreme Court on Friday was moved to proceed against former president Pervez Musharraf in accordance with the High Treason Punishment Act and set aside the judgment of the Sindh High Court which said that it cannot order registration of a high-treason case against Musharraf.
The petitioner, Maulvi Iqbal Haider, requested the apex court to grant leave to appeal against the impugned Sindh High Court judgment and set aside the same in the interest of justice. He

SC moved for Rehman Malik’s disqualification

ISLAMABAD:
A petition was filed in the Supreme Court on Monday seeking directions to the Sindh High Court (SHC) to decide a pending plea seeking the disqualification of Interior Minister Rehman Malik.
The petitioner, Iqbal Haider, submitted that he had filed a petition in the SHC for disqualification of the interior minister, as his conviction stood intact after the NRO was declared null and void by the Supreme Court on December 16, 2009.
He said the SHC was not