Tag: Sc

Benazir was not interested in NRO, Musharraf was: SC

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said on Thursday that former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was not at all interested in the National Reconciliation Ordinance,...

To the SC now

The memo saga isn’t over yet Despite Hussain Haqqani’s resignation and replacement by a new ambassador, the issue of Mansoor Ijaz’s memo continues to reverberate....

SC will make example out of RPPs case: CJP

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry observed on Wednesday that the Supreme Court just wanted to check transparency in the Rental Power Projects (RPPs) and...

Nawaz moves SC over ‘memogate’

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Wednesday approached the Supreme Court with a constitutional petition, praying the court to summon President Asif Ali Zardari...

Nawaz moves SC on memo issue

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has filed a petition to probe the memo issue in the Supreme Court. Khawaja Asif, Ishaq Dar,...

No law defends corruption: SC

Directing the government to explain in writing by today (Wednesday) how the federation was affected by the verdict that declared the National Reconciliation Ordinance...

SC not a power defaulter

Rejecting Water and Power Development Authority’s (WAPDA) claim in the National Assembly on Monday that the apex court was one of its defaulters, the...

SC moved to form commission to probe memo scandal

A constitutional petition seeking the formation of a high-level commission to investigate the ‘Memogate’ controversy and determine who was responsible for the explosive document...

SC questions government’s protection of NRO

Questioning the protection of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), a law enacted by a dictator, by a democratic government, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry...

Supreme Court summons Kamal Azfar in NRO review case

Hearing the NRO (National Reconciliation Order) review case, the Supreme Court of Pakistan summoned Kamal Azfar, federation’s earlier lawyer, on Tuesday and called for...

SC moved against Mullen and Ijaz

A petition was filed in the Supreme Court (SC) Lahore Registry on Saturday seeking formation of a judicial commission to probe into a memorandum...

A wake up call for the bar

We have all stood witness to the recent Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) elections which took place in all the four provinces of the...

‘SC can’t hear plea against appointment of judges in GB’

During the hearing of a petition challenging the appointment of retired judges as chief judge or judge of the Supreme Appellate Court of Gilgit-Baltistan...

SC forms bench to hear NRO review plea on 21st

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry formed a 17-member larger bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday to hear a review petition on November 21...

SC gets sanctioned strength, 4 judges join

The Supreme Court (SC) got its sanctioned strength of 17 after four new judges took oath on Thursday. Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad...

4 new SC judges sworn in

Four new Supreme Court judges took oath of their office on Thursday in a simple ceremony held at the Supreme Court building. The oath...