Tag: Petition

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday summoned Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Aslam Tareen for April 4 on a petition challenging police crackdowns against sheesha cafes in the city. Justice Chaudhry Iftikhar Hussain was hearing a petition filed by restaurant owners Danial Arif and Arif Saleem. The petitioners, through their counsel, Ahmed Pansota, said that they own restaurants and cafes where sheesha is served. They said that on March 17, some policemen led by

LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Friday refused to hear a petition challenging the acquittal and release of Raymond Davis by trial court, and sent the petition to the bench of Justice Iftikhar Hussein Chaudhry to determine if it was maintainable or not. Barrister Iqbal Jafferi, disputing Davis' release, filed the petition. Iqbal argued that the trial court had violated Sharia Law because Fahim's widow was not ready to pardon Davis. The widow

LAHORE - A Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench on Tuesday will hear a petition challenging appointment of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Punjab Director General (DG) Rana Zahid Mehmood. On Monday, the LHC chief justice (CJ) directed the petitioner's counsel Azhar Siddique to file a new petition along with Zahid's appointment notification and other necessary documents.
The bench consisting of Justice Chaudhry Iftikhar and Justice Sheikh Ahmed Farooq heard the petition.

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) chief justice (CJ) on Monday sought a reply from the Punjab government within two weeks on a petition seeking action against doctors for observing strikes by endangering the life of patients. Journalist Manzoor Qadir filed the petition submitting that the doctors were violating their code of professional conduct by observing strikes. He said that the strikes were causing a lot of problems to citizens who were being denied their fundamental right of

KARACHI - A constitutional petition was filed at the Sindh High Court on Saturday, seeking contempt-of-court proceedings against the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Sindh for criticising and protesting Supreme Court's decision of nullifying National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman Justice (retd) Deedar Hussain Shah's appointment.
United Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Secretary General Rana Faizul Hassan moved the petition and submitted that the citizens of a country,

KARACHI - A constitutional petition was filed in the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday, seeking the restoration of the Jaffar Tayyar Cooperative Society, which was declared dissolved by the government. It also pleaded to conduct a probe over the occupation of lands by cooperatives societies.

LAHORE - An application was filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday seeking termination of Dr Majid Naeem, head of new online system for all education boards and abolition of the boards' online system that could not issue role number slips to students on time. The application was filed by Advocate Muhammad Azhar Siddique as an addition to his already pending main petition against the new Matric exams system.
The petitioner alleged that Dr Naeem was a corrupt person and he

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday directed official provincial and federal lawyers to assist the court in a petition seeking the disqualification of MPA and former Sindh chief minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim due to his unauthorised absence from assembly sessions. An SHC division bench comprising Chief Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Hasan Azhar Rizvi directed Deputy Attorney General Rizwan Ahmed Dodani and Assistant Advocate General Sarwar Khan to assist the court in

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday issued notices for March 9 to all Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) in Punjab on a petition seeking postponement of Matriculation examinations and abolition of the new system of multiple choice questions (MCQ). Azhar Siddique filed the petition clubbing it with another petition on the same issue. He submitted that the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) has changed the objective questions procedure

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday disposed of a constitutional petition regarding the transporters' strike, but also ordered the government to ensure the provision of transport facilities to citizens if transporters continued their strike.
A division bench headed by Justice Ghulzar Ahmed passed the order on a petition moved by Farah Awan that has sought the withdrawal of the strike call, arguing that the Karachi Transport Ittehad (KTI) had issued a strike call

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday issued notices to Sindh Excise and Taxation (E&T) Minister Mukesh Kumar Chawla and E&T secretary on a constitutional petition moved by two wine shop owners for not issuing them a permit despite Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah's orders. An SHC division bench, headed by Chief Justice Mushir Alam, issued the notices to the respondents after hearing the preliminary arguments made by the petitioners.
The petition was filed by Harish

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday dismissed a petition moved by applicants seeking issuance of appointment letters in the Port Qasim Authority (PQA).
The division bench comprising Justice Maqbool Baqar and Justice Shahid Anwar Bajwa had earlier reserved the judgment on the petition moved by 42 applicants after hearing final arguments from both sides.
The petition was filed by Saleh Muhammad and others through their counsel Abdul Salam Memon pleading the court

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Wednesday while strongly admonishing the lawyer dismissed a petition challenging condition of getting NOC for citizens to go abroad. The CJ while reprimanding Advocate Noshab A Khan, petitioner, said that by filing such useless petition they wasted important time of the court. The CJ said only to get projection in media they file such petition even without studying the relevant law. The CJ was holding proceeding of

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court Chief Justice on Wednesday hearing a petition against recent increase in POL prices as "objection case" directed the petitioner to bring impugned notification and the application which petitioner claimed to have filed with the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra). With these directions the chief justice dismissed the petition filed by Advocate Mateenul Haq Chaudhry. Advocate Chaudhry had submitted that the impugned notification regarding increase in

Lahore - A petition was filed in the LHC on Tuesday to make US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron P Munter a party in the Raymond Davis immunity case, on behalf of the US government, and issue a restraining order against approaching the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in this regard. Azhar Siddique filed the petition, who has also filed an earlier petition, challenging diplomatic immunity of Davis under the Vienna Convention 1961 and 1963 terming it against the constitution, UN

Lahore - The Lahore High Court (LHC) registrar office on Tuesday has put a procedural objection on a petition challenging requirement of No Objection Certificates (NOCs) before traveling abroad and has asked the petitioner to affix impugned notification issued by interior ministry in this regard. Earlier petitioner advocate Noshab A Khan had challenged the requirement saying that the impugned decision taken by the interior ministry was a gross infringement of civil liberties. He said

KARACHI - In a dramatic development in the Shershah carnage case on Monday, a witness filed a constitutional petition for arresting and prosecuting nine men who were released a month ago after he had failed to identify them before the court.
Anti-Terrorism Court Administrator Judge Justice Sajjad Ali Shah had acquitted the nine suspects - Ejaz, Iqbal, Muhammad Akbar, Asghar Ali, Muhammad Tufail, Abdul Rasheed, Tehseen, Jauhar and Abid - on January 26 because the complainant had