Tag: Petition

An application was submitted in the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday, requesting withdrawal of a constitutional petition that was filed seeking fresh vote...

A constitutional petition has been filed at the Sindh High Court seeking restoration of electricity supply in several areas of Bin Qasim Town. The...

Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Umar Ata Bandial on Monday issued notice to the federal government for May 16 on a petition challenging unscheduled...

Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Monday linked the allotment of Haj quota to private tour operators with the...

A anti-terrorism court on Saturday reserved its verdict on a petition filed by six persons arrested in Pakistan in connection with Mumbai attacks. The...

A petition was filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday challenging the Haj Policy 2011 and discriminatory allotment of the Haj quota....

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday gave another opportunity to the federal government to file its reply on a petition challenging US drone...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed the federation's review petition against the order setting aside the Parliamentary Committee's recommendations for rejecting judges' appointment.
According to a private TV, the bench, comprising Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Tariq Parvez and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, was hearing the review petition, filed by the government, against the March 4 decision of the apex court setting aside

LAHORE - Former President, Rafiq Tarar filed petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC), seeking to remove Musharraf's name from official record.
The Lahore High Court (LHC) sought an answer from Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq about the removal of former president General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf's name form the official record as the president of Pakistan.
Former president in his petition maintained that after the approval of 18th Amendment and the Supreme Court's

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.

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday adjourned the hearing of a petition challenging appointment of eight directors of the Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) until April 28. Earlier, a reply was submitted in the court on behalf of the Punjab government and education department stating that all appointments were made according to the law. The court asked the education deputy secretary to explain whether the newly-appointed directors belong to the private sector.
The

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court issued notices to Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) chairman and Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) president/chief executive officer (CEO) on Friday on a constitutional petition pleading to block sexual websites' links appearing in the results of Yahoo!, MSN and Google search engines.
The petition was filed by Human Rights Commission South Asia (HRCSA) representative Iqbal Kazmi who sought blocking the

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday directed the Attorney General to appear before the court in a petition asking Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to seek a vote of confidence. The division bench headed by SHC Chief Justice Mushir Alam heard the constitutional petition filed in the SHC by Maulvi Iqbal Haider, submitting that the prime minister should seek vote of confidence from the parliament, as he had lost majority after one of its partners withdrew from the ruling

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday gave last opportunity to the federal government and the Senate's chairman to file replies by April 20 in connection with a writ petition seeking disqualification of Rehman Malik as senator on the basis of his removal from service. Mahfooz Ahmad, a local, moved the petition in which he submitted that Rehman Malik was removed from service in Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in 1998 and as he was not eligible to be elected as a

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

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry admitted for regular hearing a petition seeking court's orders to remove all references made to Pervez Musharraf describing him as president of Pakistan in public or official record. The petition was filed by former president Muhammad Rafiq Tarar submitting he be given pension as former president by declaring Pervez Musharraf as unlawful in the list of former presidents.
Earlier, the LHC judicial registrar put

LAHORE - A Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench on Monday again sought reply from the attorney general, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman and Punjab Police inspector general on a petition challenging appointment of NAB Punjab Director General Rana Zahid Mehmood. On Monday, nobody appeared on behalf of the respondents on which the petitioner's counsel alleged that the Punjab government was deliberately delaying submission of replies.
He pointed out that Zahid's