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An 11-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, on Monday heard the presidential reference on revisiting the murder...

The Supreme Court will resume hearing in the presidential reference seeking to revisit the death sentence awarded to former prime minister and Pakistan People’s...

President Asif Ali Zardari wrote a letter to Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry and requested him to hear the Bhutto reference case, a private...

An accountability court on Friday acquitted AR Siddique, former FBR chairman in the SGS-Cotecna reference and disposed of the case against President Asif Zardari...

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has rejected the presidential reference against five judges who took oath under the Provisional Constitution Order...

Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has rejected the presidential reference against five PCO judges. According to a private television channel, the chief justice...

An 11-member larger bench of the Supreme Court will today (Monday) resume hearing in a presidential reference seeking a review of the death sentence...

The Punjab National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has submitted a reference to an accountability court against former AC/DSC Rafique Ahmad Awan, Malik Masood Ahmad, former...

ISLAMABAD - Special Meeting of the Cabinet was held under the Chairmanship of Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani here at the Prime Minister's Secretariat to discuss the questions of law in the reference filed by the President of Pakistan under Article 186 of the Constitution in the Supreme Court to revisit the case of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
The Cabinet invited Dr Babar Awan, the Law Counsel for Z.A. Bhutto case and Counsel of the President to brief the Cabinet on legal

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court (SC) pointed out on Monday that the presidential reference to reopen the case of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lacked questions of law upon which the court's opinion could be sought under Article 186 of the constitution, and told government's counsel Dr Babar Awan to frame a question of law in the reference. A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani was

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court (SC) will resume the hearing today (Monday) of a presidential reference to reopen the case of former premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani will resume the hearing at 11.30am today.
At the last hearing, the court had pointed out flaws in the reference and asked the government to frame specific questions of law about the controversial

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday pointed out that no question of law to meet the requirement of Article 186 was framed in the presidential reference for revisiting the death sentence of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, directing Babar Awan, the federation's lawyer, to assist the court over relevant questions of law to revisit the ZAB case.
A three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani

ISLAMABAD - As the courtroom was packed to capacity on Thursday during the hearing of the ZA Bhutto case, lawyers and PPP leaders outside the court made careful statements, understandably not to annoy the court. All those who talked to reporters praised the goodwill gesture shown by the court vis-a-vis the presidential reference despite the recent bitterness between the executive and the judiciary on non-implementation of court verdicts. Soon after the hearing of the case, former law

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) lawyers and ministers were pleasantly surprised on Wednesday when the Supreme Court (SC) admitted a presidential reference to reopen the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto case, a petition most legal experts had said would be dismissed as "not maintainable". The level of respect that Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry's showed for Bhutto came as a complete surprise. "I am getting emotional today," said the chief justice, referring to the reopening of

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court will today (Wednesday) take up for preliminary hearing the presidential reference seeking a review of the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto hanging case. A three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani will conduct the hearing and will be assisted by the attorney general.
The reference was filed by President Asif Ali Zardari under his advisory jurisdiction to seek an opinion on revisiting the

LAHORE - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) senior party members from Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been called in the presidency to discuss the party strategy regarding Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) case in the Supreme Court on Tuesday (today). The PPP sources said the meeting was called by the President Asif Ali Zardari, who is also the co-chairman of PPP, to discuss the reference about the re-opening of the ZAB case, relief for people in the upcoming budget and

LAHORE - The People's Lawyers' Forum (PLF) Punjab chapter on Saturday hailed the presidential reference filed in the Supreme Court (SC) to revisit the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) hanging case.
PLF Punjab Senior Vice President Malik Nasir Awan and Additional General Secretary Rana Sufyan Arshad said that ZAB's death was a judicial murder, as the judges who gave the decision have also accepted that it was a wrong decision. They said that revisiting the case will also be helpful to