Tag: Petitions

Petitions against PU VC dismissed

Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial on Monday dismissed petitions challenging re-appointment of Dr Mujahid Kamran as vice chancellor of Punjab...

Petitions filed against appointments of Dr Asim, Farooqui

Two petitions were filed in the Supreme Court’s Karachi registry on Monday — one calling for the disqualification of Dr Asim Hussain from the...

LHC dismisses all petitions against PTCL

The Lahore High Court (LHC) has dismissed three different petitions against Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) Voluntary Severance Scheme (VSS). Out of these, two...

SC continues hearing contempt law petitions

The Supreme Court on Wednesday resumed hearing on 27 identical petitions filed against contempt of court law, according to a private TV channel. A...

A judicial soft coup?

It is the first time in the history of Pakistan that a civilian government has been toppled by the Supreme Court’s short order on...

LHC admits new petitions against LPG Policy 2011

Lahore High Court Justice Umar Ata Bandial on Wednesday admitted two more petitions against LPG Policy 2011 and issued notice for October 12 to...

Petitions against commissionerate system withdrawn from SHC

Two identical constitutional petitions - filed against the restoration of commissionerate system and the Land Revenue Act in Sindh - were withdrawn by the...

Petitions against commissionerate system withdrawn from SHC

Two identical constitutional petitions - filed against the restoration of commissionerate system and the Land Revenue Act in Sindh - were withdrawn by the...

Petitions by MNAs, MPAs dismissed

A full bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday dismissed several petitions of the elected parliamentarians and members of provincial assembly (MPAs)...

LHC reserves verdict on sacked lawyers’ petitions

The Lahore High Court on Wednesday reserved judgment on petitions of 87 public prosecutors challenging their termination by the Pakistan Muslims League-Nawaz (PML-N) government...

LHC dismisses five petitions against delay in Haj quotas

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday dismissed five identical petitions for early execution of the court’s verdict on Haj Policy. The court observed...

Shaikh assures FTO of fewer review petitions

Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh on Monday assured that a mechanism would be devised to curb the Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) review...

LHC orders DB for hearing petitions against Haj Policy

Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Friday ordered constituting a division bench (DB) to hear petitions challenging the Haj...

LHC seeks full record of old petitions against Facebook

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday sought until May 10, the complete of record of all previous petitions filed against social networking website...

AGP summoned in petitions seeking Musharraf’s extradition

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Thursday directed the Attorney General of Pakistan (AGP) to appear on February 8 over petitions seeking extradition of former president Pervez Musharraf and registration of a high treason case against him.
On Thursday, Deputy Attorney General Tanveer Hashimi sought more time to obtain instructions from the quarters concerned. However, the counsel for the petitioners opposed the official request terming it 'delaying tactics) the proceedings in the

Bail petitions for accused in BB murder case filed in ATC

RAWALPINDI - Applications seeking release of the accused police officials in Benazir Bhutto (BB) murder case were filed in the Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) Rawalpindi on Monday.
Malik Waheed Anjum, counsel of former CPO Saud Aziz and former SP Rawal Town Khurram Shahzad, filed the bail petitions in the court of Rana Nisar Ahmed Khan who directed the FIA to present the related record on January 7. It was pleaded in the applications that FIA, despite getting six-day physical remand

IHC stops admitting petitions for the time being

ISLAMABAD - Delay in the oath-taking ceremony of Islamabad High Court's (IHC) newly-appointed chief justice and other seven judges is irking litigants as well as lawyers, as the IHC has stopped admitting cases and petitions for the time being.
On the other hand, the Rawalpindi Bench of the Lahore High Court has also declined to admit cases of the residents of the federal capital, which fall within the jurisdiction of the IHC. And lawyers and litigants in the federal capital have