Tag: Plea

ISLAMABAD - Setting aside objections raised by the Registrar's Office, the Supreme Court on Monday accepted for regular hearing a petition against the devolution of the federal Ministry of Education to the provinces under the 18th Amendment and issued notices to the parties concerned. The petition was filed by senior educationists Chaudhry Sadiq Ali, former director of Model Colleges (Islamabad), and Dr Abdul Razzaque Memon, former principal of Dawood College of Engineering and

KARACHI - The Provincial Anti-Corruption Court on Thursday granted acquittal plea moved by lecturer Abdul Sattar Soomro charged with fake appointments in the Sindh Education Department.
The special court's Judge Rashida Asad passed the judgment after hearing arguments from both sides and examining the evidences and records produced by the prosecution.
Advocate Wazir Khoso appeared before the court on behalf of accused Abdul Sattar Soomro, a lecturer of Sindhi at Larkana's

KARACHI - Additional and District Judge (ADJ) West Gulshan Aara Chandio on Saturday reserved the judgment on the acquittal plea of National Highway Authority (NHA) Chairman Chaudry Altaf from the Shershah bridge collapse case under Section 265-K.
The NHA chief, ex-chairman NHA Major General (r) Farrukh Javed, operations member Raja Nowsherwan, general manager (construction) Mohammed Yousaf Barakzai, ex-general manager (construction) retired colonel Tahseenul Haq, former member

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its verdict on a joint petition against irregularities of over Rs 25 billion in the leasing of 1,128 kanals of Railways' land in Lahore to a Malaysian consortium associated with two Lahore-based companies - Husnain Construction Company (Pvt) Ltd and Unicon Consulting Service (Pvt) Ltd, which constructed Royal Palm Golf and Country Club Lahore on the land.
A two-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday adjourned hearing for three weeks on a contempt-of-court plea, seeking explanation from senior officials of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)-Passport Circle for their non-compliance with the court's prior order to provide a citizen with a passport.
A division bench, comprising Chief Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Hassan Azhar Rizvi, was hearing a contempt-of-court application moved by Haseena, wife of Hashim, seeking

LAHORE - An accountability court on Tuesday dismissed an application by a man seeking acquittal from a reference pending against him in court.
The petition was filed by former Punjab University College of Information Technology (PUCIT) principal Dr Majid Naeem under Section 265 K of the Pakistan Penal Code. He was charged with involvement in a financial scam and misuse of authority.
According to the National Accountability Bureau, the accused, while being posted as

LAHORE - Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry dismissed a writ petition on Monday challenging the construction of a flyover bridge at Kalma Chowk on Ferozepur Road. The petition was filed by Lahore Conservation Society President Kamil Khan Mumtaz, Shajar Dost Convenor Col (r) Ejaz Nazim, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Pakistan Director General Ali Habib and Concerned Citizens of Pakistan Chairwoman Justice (r) Nasira Iqbal. Dismissing the petition Justice Chaudhry

ISLAMABAD - The Parliamentary Committee (PC) on judges' appointment unanimously decided on Wednesday to request the prime minister that a review petition be filed in the Supreme Court on behalf of the federation, against the verdict of a four-member bench, which overturned the PC's decision rejecting the Judicial Commission (JC)'s recommendation for one-year extension to six additional judges of the Lahore High Court (LHC) and Sindh High Court (SHC).
The PC decided that it would

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday dismissed a petition seeking early hearing of an already pending petition seeking disqualification of Punjab Assembly's Unification Bloc leader Dr Tahir Ali Javed. LHC Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry observed that the petition could not be fixed for an early hearing, as the court is facing a shortage of judges.
The main petition was filed by Zaheer Ahmed Naz, Allah Rakha Azhar, Nasir Mehmood and Muhammad Aslam through their

LAHORE - A local court in Peshawar has reserved its order until March 7 over the release of US citizen Aaron Mark DeHaven on bail, Geo News reported on Friday. Additional Sessions Judge Altafur Rehman was hearing a plea seeking the release of DeHaven on bail.
The US citizen's lawyer Ali Raza informed the court that DeHaven migrated to Pakistan on a working visa and his client's had applied for visa extension, as the same had expired in October 2010, adding that he could not be

KARACHI - The Sindh government filed an urgent application in the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday to vacate the stay order passed over a petition filed against the alleged appointment of police constables on political basis. On February 1, the SHC had restricted the Sindh government from hiring police constables till official comments were filed.
On Tuesday, Sindh Advocate General Fattah Mallak submitted an urgent application in which he requested the able court to vacate the

ISLAMABAD - Justice (r) Iftikhar Hussain, a retired chief justice of the Lahore High Court (LHC), on Tuesday filed an intra-court appeal in the Supreme Court seeking setting aside of its earlier short order of initiating contempt proceedings against him from Feb 21.
Earlier on Monday, Justice Shabbar Raza Rizvi, a dysfunctional judge of the LHC had filed a similar plea. Dr Khalid Ranjha, counsel for Justice (r) Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry prayed that the Feb 2 order was not

KARACHI - The mother of a man, whose wife was murdered allegedly by her own family, has demanded that her daughter-in-law's murderers, who are now threatening her and her family, be arrested. Ghazala Perveen, mother of Owais, said that her son married Shumaila against the will of the bride's family in August last year. However, Shumaila was murdered by her father and others in Khairpur district in December, she claimed. She said that her dead daughter-in-law's relatives are now

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday issued notices to the chairmen of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and National Assembly's Public Account Committee (PAC) besides Secretary Finance on a petition filed by a former president of Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Bank.
Tahir Abbasi through his lawyer pleaded before a division bench, headed by Chief Justice IHC Iqbal Hameed-ur-Rehman, that the NAB had registered a reference against him in 2002, charging him of

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court Friday adjourned for indefinite period the hearing on a plea against eligibility of Interior Minister Rehman Malik. The court decided to adjudicate on the plea after decision on pending review petition against the judgment on the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO).
A two-member bench comprising Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja and Justice Tariq Parvez, was hearing a petition challenging eligibility of Interior minister Rehman Malik. Advocate-on-record

NEW DELHI - The ICC has rejected the Indian board's request to keep Eden Gardens in Kolkata as the venue for the World Cup match between India and England on Feb. 27.

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition, challenging the construction of Benazir Bhutto's monument at Liaquat Bagh, Rawalpindi, by spending money from the national exchequer.
The division bench headed by Chief justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry dismissed the petition and held that it was not the job of the court, but of the government or parliament to determine who was or was not a national hero or whose monument should be or should not be built from the