Tag: Petitions

FBR never issued any notice to Justice Isa, court told

--SC judge’s counsel says tax commissioner decided the matter of Article 116’s violation on his own ISLAMABAD: Advocate Babar Sattar, the counsel for Supreme Court...

Anwar Majeed, son file petitions against banking court’s verdict

KARACHI: Anwar Majeed and his son Ghani Majeed on Monday filed two additional petitions in Sindh High Court (SHC) against banking court’s decision of moving...

LHC disposes of Hamza Shehbaz’s pre-arrest bail petitions

LAHORE: A Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench on Tuesday disposed of the pre-arrest bail petitions filed by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Hamza...

Trial court failed to prove Nawaz’s ownership of London flats, IHC...

ISLAMABAD:  The defence counsel for former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday challenged the conviction of his client in the Avenfield illegal assets reference,...

SC disposes of pleas against Haripur, Quetta delimitations

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Thursday rejected a plea for the correction of variations in the population distribution of...

LHC dismisses treason pleas against Nawaz Sharif

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday dismissed pleas submitted by opposition parties to initiate treason proceedings against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif...

Three contempt of court petitions against Nawaz dismissed

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday dismissed three separate contempt of court petitions against former prime minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif for being ineffective. A...

Over two million sign separate petitions for Tamimi’s release

TEL AVIV: Millions of people from around the world have signed several online petitions demanding the release of Ahed Tamimi, a 17-year-old Palestinian girl...

Bangladesh president rejects death-row mercy petitions

Two top Bangladeshi opposition leaders were set to be hanged later Saturday night for their roles in the 1971 independence war after the country’s...

IHC dismissed petitions against delimitation in capital

The Islamabad High Court on Wednesday dismissed several identical petitions against the delimitation of constituencies of Union Councils for Local Government (LG) elections in...

SC orders combining petitions on MQM, PTI resignations

On a petition filed by Syed Zaffar Ali Shah, a three-member bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, on...

SC says petitioners failed to make case against 2013 polls

Detailed judgement says none of the petitioners filed any document even to lay foundation for issuance of notice to the respondents The Supreme Court on...

PPP can’t have constituencies lay unrepresented

PPP sources says party moving courts to force govt into accepting PTI lawmakers’ resignations as delay in resignations case amounts to negation of constituencies’ right to be represented in assemblies

Seventy-nine election petitions still await decisions

ECP fails to ensure compliance with mandatory legal provision of disposing off election petitions within 120 days of receipt No tribunal has complied with mandatory...

SC dismisses petitions in NICL corruption case

The Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed the petitions filed by the NAB chairman and others seeking review of the court’s decision given against them...

SC rejects PTI, JI petitions against rigging

    Facing tough questions from judges of the apex court, petitions of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Jamaat-e-Islami regarding rigging in general elections were rejected by the...

SC to hear petitions against NAB chief

A larger Supreme Court bench has been formed to take up petitions against the appointment of Fasih Bokhari as NAB chief. The five-member bench, led...