Tag: Petitions

Harassment of defaulters – SHC reserves verdict on identical petitions

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Saturday reserved its verdict on identical constitutional petitions filed against the staff of different private banks and institutions for engaging in harassment for loan recovery.
The petitions were filed by Anwer Mehmood and others, who approached a three-member SHC bench headed by Chief Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany. They impleaded the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) governor; presidents and heads of recovery departments of ABN Amro Bank,

LHC dismisses MPs’ petitions against local commissions

LAHORE: A full bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC), headed by Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry, dismissed on Friday scores of petitions filed by 12 parliamentarians, challenging the authority and legality of the local commissions appointed by LHC's election tribunals to record statements of parties.
In its short order, the full bench held that the local commissions were constituted to assist the election tribunals and the Election Commission in the process of recording

SC takes up petitions against NAB chief tomorrow

ISLAMABAD
The Supreme Court will on Monday take up identical petitions challenging the appointment of Justice (r) Deedar Hussain Shah as the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman.
A three-member SC bench consisting of Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali will hear the petitions by Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Nisar Ali Khan and Shahid Orakzai.
The petitioners named the federation through its Law and