Tag: Plea

Announcement of Mohajir Qaumi Movement chief Afaq Ahmed’s bail plea was put off again by Additional District Sessions Judge Sageer Ahmed Shaikh. The...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Capital Development Authority’s (CDA) former chairman Kamran Lashari to withdraw his review petition against the court’s June...

The Hague war crimes tribunal appointed a prominent Belgrade lawyer on Thursday to defend Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb commander whose coming trial on...

Additional District Judge (East) Saghir Ahmed Sheikh reserved his judgement on Saturday on Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi Chairman Afaq Ahmed’s bail plea in the murder...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday accepted for regular hearing a plea by the Provincial Civil Service (PCS) officers against the alleged exploitation of services...

The West’s energy watchdog urged oil producers to boost supply to protect economic recovery, just weeks before an OPEC meeting which analysts say looks...

Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed sought on Wednesday the federal government’s reply along with complete records to a petition filed by...

Atif Aziz Polani, allegedly involved in money laundering, was granted bail against a surety of Rs 10 million by the Sindh High Court (SHC)...

An accountability court on Friday accepted plea bargains by four students charged with misappropriation of the MORA Scholarship Fund. Khalid, Anwar, Fayyaz and Munir...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court dismissed on Wednesday the government's review petition against an apex court verdict that had overruled the Parliamentary Committee's decision to reject a one-year extension in the services of six additional judges of the Lahore High Court and Sindh High Court.
"We are not inclined to review the judgement," a four-member special bench comprising Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Tariq Parvez and Justice Khilji

ISLAMABAD - After the Supreme Court (SC)'s dismissal of the government's review petition against the apex court's order overruling the Parliamentary Committee's decision to reject the Judicial Commission's recommendations on judges' appointments, the Parliamentary Committee may bring the final verdict of the apex court to parliament for debate. During the hearing of the review plea, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja remarked that the eight-member parliamentary committee did not have the status

ISLAMABAD - After senior lawyer Kamal Azfar was withdrawn as counsel for the government in a review petition against the Supreme Court (SC)'s verdict on the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), Advocate-on-Record (AOR) Raja Abdul Ghafoor has also submitted an application seeking withdrawal, to be considered by the 17-member full court scheduled to resume hearing on the petition today (Monday).
Ghafoor's application is likely to be accepted, and the new AOR Zafar Abbas Naqvi

ISLAMABAD - Giving priority to the government's review petition against the NRO verdict, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry delayed the hearings of petitions against the 18th Amendment, originally scheduled to be held on April 18, till the third week of May subject to availability of the bench.
The CJP said in a brief order that the hearings had been adjourned because of the hearing of the review plea against the NRO verdict scheduled to be

ISLAMABAD - Taking life threats to Kamal Azfar in account seriously, the Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the senior lawyer to disassociate himself from the government's review plea against the SC verdict against the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO).
While heading the 17-member full court hearing the federation's review petition against the NRO verdict, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said he received a note put up by the SC registrar on a faxed complaint from

ISLAMABAD - A special central court on Thursday rejected bail plea of former federal minister for religious affairs Hamid Saeed Kazmi who is in the custody of the FIA for his alleged involvement in the Haj corruption case. The former minister was brought to the court of special central judge M Farooq amid tight security as dozens of his supporters assembled outside the courtroom.
After hearing the arguments of the defence and the prosecution, the court rejected Kazmi's bail plea

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected repeated requests of Additional Attorney General KK Agha to allow Dr Khalid Ranjha to represent the federation in place of Kamal Azfar in the review petition against the NRO verdict. The court directed Agha to get specific instructions from the government about the counsel until April 14. During the hearing, Azfar submitted that it appeared as if the government did not want to let the case proceed for fear of dismissal and was making

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday accepted for regular hearing a petition seeking dismissal of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Deputy Chairman Javed Zia Qazi and issued notices to the respondents - the federation, law minister, law secretary and establishment division secretary.
A three-member Supreme Court bench of Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa and Justice Amir Hani Muslim told by petitioner Habibul Wahabul Khairi advocate that NAB's former