Tag: Proceedings

PML-N MNA Murtaza Javed Abbasi staged walkout of the House on Wednesday against non provision of development funds and partial attitude of the speaker. The...

The Sindh High Court, while hearing on Tuesday a petition filed by the director general of public relations Fazul Shah against his transfer from...

Interior Secretary Khawaja Siddique Akbar has challenged the maintainability of the constitutional petition filed by PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif and others seeking probe into...

PATTAN, a member organisation of Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN), on Thursday launched a project to directly observe the proceedings of the Punjab...

A constitutional petition seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and Interior Minister Rehman Malik for not implementing many judicial...

A constitutional petition seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and Interior Minister Rehman Malik for not implementing many judicial...

Lahore High Court Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry dismissed a civil application seeking stay of the Nishtar Colony murder case trial proceedings at...

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) boycotted the proceedings of the Sindh Assembly on Saturday to protest the postponement of elections on two general seats...

The Punjab Assembly was a scene of mayhem on Wednesday when the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) came face to...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a plea by Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain seeking the separation of Moonis Elahi’s case...

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court's inspection team member (MIT) sent on Thursday an application to the chief justice, seeking proceedings against Additional District and Sessions judge Muhammad Yousaf Aojla for releasing CIA contractor Raymond Davis in double murder of two Pakistanis.
The MIT referred the case to chief justice in response to an application filed by Barrister Javed Iqbal Jaffrey who accused AD&SJ Aojla of acquitting Davis in an unusual manner and against the rules.

LAHORE - The release of US national Raymond Davis and arrest of PCS officers dominated the Punjab Assembly (PA) proceedings on Monday, which restrained the treasury benches from carrying out its routine work.
The opposition alleged that the Punjab government played its role for the release of Davis saying that the House should be allowed to hold a debate on the topic that how Davis was released. The PA speaker started the question hour session but point of orders did not allow

KARACHI - A constitutional petition was filed at the Sindh High Court on Saturday, seeking contempt-of-court proceedings against the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Sindh for criticising and protesting Supreme Court's decision of nullifying National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman Justice (retd) Deedar Hussain Shah's appointment.
United Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Secretary General Rana Faizul Hassan moved the petition and submitted that the citizens of a country,

ISLAMABAD - Hearing a joint petition against the Parliamentary Committee's (PC) rejection of one year extension in the service of four additional judges of the Lahore High Court (LHC), the Supreme Court on Thursday expressed dismay and warned the committee of ex-parte proceedings, when it came to know that no representative of the committee had turned up to pursue the matter.
The four-member bench of Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Khilji

LAHORE - A full bench of Lahore High Court adjourned proceedings on petitions challenging President Asif Ali Zardari's dual offices for one day. The bench was hearing detailed arguments of the petitioner counsel AK Dogar who will continue arguing his case on Tuesday against Zardari as court time ended on Monday.
A K Dogar may take few more days to complete constitutional deliberations on the President's dual offices. The petitions against President Zardari were filed by Pakistan

ALMATY - Hosts' Kazakhstan dominated the day's action at the Asian Winter Games on Thursday adding four gold medals to their impressive collection to stay on top with 17 golds and 46 medals overall. South Korea failed to add to their gold haul, but remain in second place with 10 gold and 24 medals overall.
Meanwhile, Japan stayed in the race for the lead in the medal table with their skiers winning two gold medals to lift their country into third position with eight golds.

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its verdict on whether it could initiate contempt proceedings against PCO judges and the army generals involved in the promulgation of November 3, 2007 emergency in the country in defiance of a seven-member Supreme Court bench's restraining order.
The court also reserved its decision on employing the assistance of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) and presidents of provincial bar associations in contempt proceedings against the PCO