Tag: Petition

PML-N, PTI challenge NA speaker’s ruling

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Monday filed two separate constitutional petitions in the Supreme Court against National Assembly speaker’s ruling regarding...

PML-N files petition challenging NA speaker’s ruling

Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) on Monday filed a petition in the Supreme Court against ruling by the National Assembly (NA) Speaker refusing...

Gilani not to file review plea

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani decided not to file review petition against contempt conviction by the Supreme Court (SC). Former Supreme Court Bar...

SC moved to bar Gilani from functioning as PM

Supreme Court (SC) has been moved Friday to bar Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani from functioning as the incumbent premier of the country...

Petition challenges govt’s complicity and inaction over drone attacks

In a bid to force the US government to halt drone attacks in North Waziristan and provide compensation to the drone attack victims, two...

Petition seeks free education to children

A petition, seeking provision of free education by the state to the children of age group from 5 to 16 years, was filed in...

Petition filed in LHC for PM’s disqualification

Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday accepted a petition for hearing seeking Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani’s disqualification. The plea was filed in...

Osama‘s brother-in-law allowed to meet sister

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday allowed Zakarya Ahmad Abd Alftah, brother of Osama bin Laden’s Yemni widow to meet his sister. The court...

IHC admits Osama’s brother-in-law to meet Yemeni sister

After a brief hearing on Wednesday the Islamabad High Court admitted the petition filed by Zakarya Ahmad Abd Alftah, brother of Osma's Yemeni widow...

SC dismisses petition against Nawaz Sharif

The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea against PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif for embezzlement in Baitulmaal funds. A three-member bench of the apex court...

Petition about Sharifs’ assets admitted for hearing

Lahore High Court (LHC) Monday admitted for hearing a petition praying that assets held by Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan...

Resetting roles

Agencies have long held monopoly over patriotism Better late than never. The intelligence agencies have been finally put in the dock. The Supreme Court has...

ISI in the doghouse

Transgression should not go unchecked The SC is fed up with unending transgressions on the part of the agencies. On Thursday, the apex court referred...

Petition against Punjab IG appointment

Lahore High Court (LHC) Thursday admitted for hearing petition challenging the appointment of IG Punjab. The petitioner took the plea in the petition that appointment...

Petition moved in SC against ISI chief

A petition was submitted against the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha in the Supreme Court in the missing persons case. The...

Petition seeking security for judges filed

A constitutional petition was filed in the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday, seeking foolproof security for judges and their families. The matter is...

Petition taken up

Retired Air Marshal Asghar Khan, now aged 91, shall feel pleased that his 15-years old petition is going to be heard by Pakistan’ Supreme...