Tag: Nro

Out of the docket, into the fire A 17-member Supreme Court bench has rejected the review petition against its verdict on NRO delivered on December...

Still out and about Zulfiqar Mirza is in London to save Pakistan, as he puts it. Meanwhile, a 17-member Supreme Court bench has rejected the...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, rejected government's pleas for the review of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO),...

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said on Thursday that former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was not at all interested in the National Reconciliation Ordinance,...

Questioning the protection of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), a law enacted by a dictator, by a democratic government, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry...

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry formed a 17-member larger bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday to hear a review petition on November 21...

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary has constituted a 17 member bench to be headed by him to hear NRO Review Petition...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court (SC) adjourned review petition on National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) for two weeks on Tuesday.
The hearing was adjourned due to absence of Justice Tasadaq Jilani, who is unavailable because of his illness.
The attorney general said that there is no change in the stance of the federation. He further said that the federation wants lawyer of its own choice.

ISLAMABAD - A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry resumed hearing of the National Reconstruction Ordinance (NRO) review case here on Monday.
Additional Attorney General K.K. Agha informed the court that he has informed the federation that the court has directed him to argue over the case, a private TV reported.
He said the federation wanted the counsel of its choice to argue over the case.
During the hearing, the Advocate on Record,

ISLAMABAD - After senior lawyer Kamal Azfar was withdrawn as counsel for the government in a review petition against the Supreme Court (SC)'s verdict on the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), Advocate-on-Record (AOR) Raja Abdul Ghafoor has also submitted an application seeking withdrawal, to be considered by the 17-member full court scheduled to resume hearing on the petition today (Monday).
Ghafoor's application is likely to be accepted, and the new AOR Zafar Abbas Naqvi

LAHORE - The government has replaced Advocate on Record in the NRO case, reported a private TV on Saturday. Advocate on Record Raja Abdul Ghafoor has been replaced with Zafar Abbas Naqvi.
Earlier, the government had prevented Kamal Azfar from following the case. A 17-member larger bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will resume hearing on the case on Monday.

ISLAMABAD - Giving priority to the government's review petition against the NRO verdict, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry delayed the hearings of petitions against the 18th Amendment, originally scheduled to be held on April 18, till the third week of May subject to availability of the bench.
The CJP said in a brief order that the hearings had been adjourned because of the hearing of the review plea against the NRO verdict scheduled to be

ISLAMABAD - Taking life threats to Kamal Azfar in account seriously, the Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the senior lawyer to disassociate himself from the government's review plea against the SC verdict against the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO).
While heading the 17-member full court hearing the federation's review petition against the NRO verdict, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said he received a note put up by the SC registrar on a faxed complaint from

ISLAMBAD - The Supreme Court (SC) has permitted the separation of Kamal Azfar, counsel of the federation, from the ongoing hearing of the National Reconciliation Order (NRO) review case here on Thursday.
Earlier on April 11, the Supreme Court rejected the government's request to change its senior counsel, Kamal Azfar, in the NRO review petition and adjourned the hearing till the following day, a private TV reported.
The apex court ordered former Attorney General Malik Abdul

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected repeated requests of Additional Attorney General KK Agha to allow Dr Khalid Ranjha to represent the federation in place of Kamal Azfar in the review petition against the NRO verdict. The court directed Agha to get specific instructions from the government about the counsel until April 14. During the hearing, Azfar submitted that it appeared as if the government did not want to let the case proceed for fear of dismissal and was making

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court (SC) declined the government's request to replace its counsel in the review petition against the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) verdict on Monday and ordered him to take instructions from the government and appear in court today (Tuesday).
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who was heading the 17-member full court hearing of the government's review petition against the NRO verdict, stated that the court could dismiss the review

ISLAMABAD - The lawyer requests the court to replace Latif Khosa with Khalid Ranjha in NRO review petition.
Refusing the request of the lawyer, Kamal Azfar, the Supreme Court on Monday directed him to represent the government in the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) review petition.
According to a private TV, a 17-member Supreme Court bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, heard the NRO review petition. Azfar sought court's