Tag: Notice

LAHORE - The Unification Bloc, a group of 47 Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) dissident member of the provincial assembly (MPA), on Thursday said that they will issue a show cause notice to Punjab Opposition Leader Chaudhry Zaheeruddin in retaliation to his notice to their group members.
Talking to journalists after meeting Punjab Assembly (PA) Speaker Rana Iqbal, Unification Bloc leader Dr Tahir Ali Javed said that Zaheeruddin had no authority to issue a show cause notice to

Lahore - Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Thursday issued notices to the Punjab government, the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) and the Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) on a petition challenging establishment of the Park and Ride Shopping Plaza at the Liberty Market. The judge directed the respondents to file replies until March 2. Judicial Activism Panel Chairman Azhar Siddique and six Liberty Market shop owners filed the petition submitting that

LAHORE - Punjab Assembly leader of the opposition Chaudhry Zaheeruddin has issued show-cause notice on the house members elected on the Pakistan Muslim League Quaid (PML-Q) tickets in 2008 with bicycle as their election symbol, and who have been disloyal to their original party to form a 'Lota' bloc (a bloc of turn coats).
Parliamentary leader of the Unification Bloc, PML-Q dissident group, Dr Tahir Ali Javaid, said Zaheeruddin had no authority to issue notices. According to a

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

KARACHI - The government has kept issuing show cause notice to the mutual funds for the sub judice matter of not making contributions to the Workers' Welfare Fund (WWF). "There have been instances whereby show cause notices under Section 221 of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 have been issued to a number of mutual funds for the recovery of WWF," Arif Habib Investments told its shareholders at Karachi Stock Exchange.
The government and Mutual Funds Association of Pakistan (MUFAP)

KARACHI - Balochistan National Party (BNP) President Sardar Akhtar Jan Mangal has appealed to the Untied Nations and the international community to help them against violation of human rights and public killings of people in Balochistan.
In telephonic address to a public protest rally against missing people and army operation in the province outside the Karachi Press Club, Mengal said the worst operation of the history was underway in the province and the media was neglecting the

LAHORE - A General House meeting of the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) on Friday condemned the contempt of court notice issued by a dysfunctional judge of the Peshawar High Court to four judges of the Supreme Court bench hearing contempt proceedings against PCO judges.
The LHCBA also demanded the government not hand over Raymond Davis, a US national accused of murdering two Pakistani youth, to his home country, saying Davis should be punished for his crime according

PESHAWAR - The tussle for power and authority among the judicial circles took another twist Friday when a three-member bench of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) suspended the show-cause notice served on four judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
Justice Jehanzaib Rahim of PHC through an order on Thursday had issued the show-cause notice to the PCO judges in a contempt of court notice. Justice Jehanzaib, a PCO judge, had questioned the authority of the SC judges of serving

PESHAWAR - Justice Jehanzaib Rahim, a dysfunctional judge of the Peshawar High Court (PHC), on Thursday issued a show-cause notice to the larger bench of the Supreme Court, scheduled to hear contempt proceedings against eight PCO judges, including him on February 21, to appear before his court also on February 21, to explain the grounds for serving him the contempt of court notice.
Legal experts say the show-cause notice issued by Justice Rahim did not have any legal or moral

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

ISLAMABAD: The report of the National Assembly's (NA) Standing Committee on House and Library has been challenged in the Islamabad High Court over the scam in the NA Employees Cooperative Housing Society. Justice Riaz Ahmed on Friday heard a petition filed by former Islamabad deputy commissioner Chaudhry Asadullah Faiz.
The petitioner contended that the NA body's report was not based on facts and corruption charges against him in the report were baseless.
He asked the court

LAHORE - An additional district and sessions judge on Thursday issued notice to FIA for February 12 on an application filed against the impugned orders by Judicial Magistrate Irfan Basra regarding the issuance of a proclamation for the arrest of Moonis Elahi.
The application has been filed by Moonis Elahi through his lawyer Muhammad Amir, submitting that FIA on Tuesday obtained proclamation orders for the arrest of Moonis who was abroad at that time due to his personal

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday issued contempt of court notice to Zari Taraqaiti Bank Limited (ZTBL) President, Zaka Ashraf, and summoned him on February 21 over his failure to comply with a court order regarding release of salary to a senior official.
A single bench of IHC comprising Justice Muhammad Anwar Khan Kasi heard petition filed by ZTBL Assistant Vice President Gazanfar Ali. The petitioner, through his counsel, told the court that the ZTBL

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

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday issued notices to the chairmen of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and National Assembly's Public Account Committee (PAC) besides Secretary Finance on a petition filed by a former president of Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Bank.
Tahir Abbasi through his lawyer pleaded before a division bench, headed by Chief Justice IHC Iqbal Hameed-ur-Rehman, that the NAB had registered a reference against him in 2002, charging him of

ISLAMABAD - The Jang Group of Publications was on Saturday served a legal notice by Mark Siegal on behalf of the Bhutto-Zardari family through Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell Attorney & Counselors, demanding a retraction and apology for the article published on February 2, 2011, entitled "Breaking News: Asif Zardari got married to Tanveer Zamani in Dubai".
"Unless such a retraction and apology is issued immediately, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP will initiate legal action on

ISLAMABAD - A four-member Supreme Court bench Friday accepted for regular hearing a petition against implementation agreement between the Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGCL) and Jamshoro Joint Venture Limited (JJVL) on the allotment of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) quota. The petition has been filed by Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) parliamentarians Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Barjees Tahir and Abid Sher Ali.
The bench comprising Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Tassaduq Hussain