Tag: Oath

Marghoob takes oath as acting auditor general

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Wednesday administered the Auditor General of Pakistan’s (AGP) oath to Aneece Marghoob. Marghoob is the...

Acting AGP sworn in

Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Chief Justice of Pakistan administered the oath of the office to Mr. Aneece Marghoob, Additonal Auditor General as Acting...

Zulfiqar Mirza to take oath as Sindh chief minister on Friday?

Sindh Home Affairs Minister Zulfiqar Mirza is likely to take oath as Sindh chief minister on Friday while the incumbent, Qaim Ali Shah, would...

15 confirmed, 11 new LHC judges take oath

As many as 15 recently confirmed and 11 newly appointed additional judges of the Lahore High Court (LHC) took oath of their offices in...

SC forgives Dogar for PCO oath

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday accepted an unconditional apology by former de-facto chief justice of Pakistan Justice (r) Abdul Hameed Dogar for taking oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) in violation of SC's November 3, 2007 restraint order and terminated the contempt of court notice issued to him.
The court also withdrew contempt of court notice against dysfunctional PCO judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Sayed Zahid Hussain after his counsel SM

CJP to administer oath to new KBA body on 5th

KARACHI Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will administrate oath to the newly-elected office bearers of the Karachi Bar Association (KBA) on March 5, KBA office bearers announced on Thursday at Karachi bar association office.
Addressing a press conference at the KBA office, the association's president, Muhammad Aqil Awan, and secretary-general, Syed Hyder Imam Rizvi, said that the oath-taking ceremony will be held at the premises of the Sindh High Court,

Two SC judges take oath today

ISLAMABAD - Two Sindh High Court (SHC) judges, Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany and Justice Amir Hani Muslim, will today (Monday) take oath as permanent judges of the Supreme Court. They will be administered oath by the CJP. The appointment summary of these judges was approved by President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday and a notification was issued by the Law Ministry.
With the inclusion of these judges, the number of SC will rise to 18 judges. Now the Supreme Court would be in a

New cabinet takes oath – Old wine in new bottles

ISLAMABAD: With some heavyweights being dropped, 21 federal ministers and one minister of state were sworn in on Friday to complete the first phase of the "lean and mean" federal cabinet, as Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani kept the charge of eight ministries with him and picked four new faces for his new team.
President Asif Zardari administered the oath to the new cabinet. Those who had been dropped did not attend the oath-taking ceremony. Shah Mahmood Qureshi was on his way

New cabinet likely to take oath today

ISLAMABAD - A smaller cabinet is likely to take oath today (Friday) with three-to-four new faces while talks to woo the leadership of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) to join the cabinet continued on Thursday.
President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday accepted the ministers' resignations. President's spokesman Farhatullah Babar said so far the president had not formally signed the ministers' resignation "but most likely the legal formality

New Lahore bishop to take oath today

LAHORE - Bishop of Lahore Dr Alexander John Malik has retired will be replaced by Elected Member of the Bishop elections Right Reverend Irfan Jameel. According to sources, the oath taking ceremony will be held at 11am at the Cathedral Church at Mall Road in which both Malik and Jameel would participate along with other bishops and government officials.
Malik is not expected to give up his powers right away. In fact, he will perform his duties until a year at least during which

Judge ‘regrets taking oath under PCO’

ISLAMABAD - Sheikh Zameer Ahmed, lawyer for Justice Sajjad Hussain Shah - a dysfunctional judge of the Lahore High Court (LHC) who took oath under the PCO - on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that his client regretted taking oath in violation of the SC restraining order and had left himself on the court's mercy.
A four-member bench of Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez was hearing contempt of court

Dogar, PCO judges took oath to save judicial system, SC told

ISLAMABAD - The lawyer for Justice (r) Abdul Hameed Dogar on Tuesday pleaded before the Supreme Court that his client had taken oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) of November 3, 2007 to save the judicial system in the country.
A four-member larger bench of Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez was hearing contempt of court cases against the superior court judges who tool oath under

Ijaz Chaudhry takes oath as new LHC CJ

LAHORE: Justice Ijaz Chaudhry took oath as the chief justice of the Lahore High Court on Thursday and started working after taking charge of his office.
Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer administered the oath to the new chief justice at a ceremony held at the Governor's House. Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Punjab Assembly Speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal, Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, judges of the Lahore High Court and senior lawyers attended the ceremony.
Former LHC CJ Khwaja