Tag: Notice

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court (SC), after hearing petitions against the appointment of Justice (r) Syed Deedar Hussain Shah as NAB chairman, has said that if notification of the chairman's appointment is cancelled, Article 209 (judicial misconduct) would not be applicable.
A four-member bench, comprising of Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillanai, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa, noted that consultation process, provided in section 6 of

LAHORE - Justice Asad Munir of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday issue notice to the Chairman National Highways Authority (NHA) and Evolves Company which was given Motorway/Highways advertising and promotional contracts by the authority at low rates by violating rules at the cost of loss to national kitty.
The judge directed the respondents NHA and the contractor company to file reply positively within three weeks. The order came on the petition against NHA which was filed by

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Friday issued notice to Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for early-hearing of appeal of fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar who has challenged the penalty of one-and-a-half-year ban and a fine of Rs7 million imposed on him by an appellate tribunal constituted by the PCB.
In this case, the then LHC Chief Justice on July 3, 2008, had allowed Shoaib Akhtar to participate in national or international cricket by suspending the ban on his playing cricket.
The

ISLAMABAD - A single bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) comprising Justice Muhammad Anwar Kasi on Friday issued notices to the officials of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for not recognizing special people's cricket association.
The court was hearing a petition filed by Pakistan Cricket Association for Physically Handicapped. Abdul Latif Kohkar, counsel for the petitioner, contended before the court that despite fulfilling all legal requirements, the association of handicapped

ISLAMABAD - Chairman NDFC Employees Welfare Action Committee Imtiaz Ali Khuhro has made an appeal to the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to take cognizance of 'worst-ever plunder of the national exchequer' to the tune of Rs120 billions in the name of merging NDFC in the national Bank of Pakistan.
Addressing a news conference here at the Supreme Court on Thursday, he said the merging of the NDFC in NBP was meant to facilitate the loan-defaulters in connivance

KARACHI - Although Sindh's industries are facing long power outages and other serious problems, the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has once again issued property taxes to industries located in the Sindh Industrial and Trading Estate (SITE), it has been learnt from reliable sources.
The issuance of property tax notices to the industries by the city district government is not a new practice with the authorities having honed it in the last couple of years and garnering

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Wednesday served notices on officials of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), Customs and Customs Intelligence allegedly involved in huge tax evasion by undertaking smuggling in the garb of Afghan Transit Trade through ISAF containers, causing Rs 33 billion loss to the national exchequer.
A three-member bench led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was hearing a suo motu case pertaining to 10,000 containers of ISAF which went missing from

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday issued notices to the director-generals of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Military Intelligence (MI) and Pakistan Rangers (Sindh); the Sindh home secretary; the inspector general of police (IGP); Karachi Capital City Police officer (CCPO); and others to file their comments on February 3 in a missing person's case.
Through her counsel Maqbool Rehman Advocate, Gulfam Bibi filed a constitutional petition impleaded the heads of

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Monday slapped a contempt of court notice on the foreign company Tethyan Copper Company (Pvt) Ltd (TCC) for initiating an advertisement campaign for the Reko Diq project, despite that the matter was in court.
A three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday was hearing petitions filed against the Pakistani government leasing the Reko Diq gold and copper mines in Balochistan

LAHORE - Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Tuesday issued notices to the Oil and and Gas Regularity Authority (OGRA) chairman and the federal government on a petition challenging nine percent increase in petroleum products prices from January 1, 2011.
The court also summoned a report from OGRA chairman and the federal government within one week seeking an explanation for increasing fuel prices, which would increase prices of other products as well. The judge

Lahore - Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Shahid Saeed on Monday issued notices to the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) managing director, general manager and director billing on a petition filed by a citizen who received a Rs 0.95 million gas bill for December.
Petitioner Muhammad Amjad submitted that he ran a drycleaner shop in Sherakot area and his average gas bill for the whole last year was Rs 50,000 but he received a Rs 37,000 gas bill for November, which he duly

LAHORE - Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry on Friday issued show-cause notices to two judicial officers including Nankana Sahib Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Saleem and Bahawalnagar Civil Judge Shahzad Raza for trying to influence him for their promotion and posting.
The LHC CJ directed them to explain their positions on being guilty of misconduct and directed the judicial officers to file their replies within a week.

LAHORE: The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday issued notice to the Lahore Cantonment Board, Lahore Development Authority (LDA) and Defence Housing Authority (DHA) for January 14 to explain who has the authority to issue no objection certificates (NOC) for a new housing society in the city and what are the standard operating procedures (SOP) for obtaining NOCs. The court was hearing an appeal moved by the DHA on issue of passage through its limits, to the adjacent Punjab Cooperative Housing

LAHORE: Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) delivered bills in majority of the city areas only two days before the due date, making it difficult for the consumers to pay bills in time, the consumers told Pakistan Today on Wednesday.
Consumers criticised the late delivery of utility bills and demanded from the company to extend the due date, as it was not possible for them to pay bills over such a short notice. The resident of different areas; Multan Road, Township, College

ISLAMABAD: All judges are equal and one judge cannot serve a contempt notice to another, SM Zafar, lawyer for Justice Sayed Zahid Hussain, argued before a four-member bench hearing contempt charges against PCO judges on Tuesday.
The bench consisting of Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez was hearing contempt charges against the superior courts' judges who took oath under the Provisional

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

ISLAMABAD: A three-member Supreme Court bench on Tuesday issued notice to the Petroleum Ministry's director general (DG) for using contemptuous language against the litigations pending in court.
The bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday was hearing a petition by Jamaat-e-Islami former chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad against the government's move to purchase its sold assets from British Petroleum at exorbitant