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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 - A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry resumed hearing of the National Reconstruction Ordinance (NRO) review case here on Monday.
Additional Attorney General K.K. Agha informed the court that he has informed the federation that the court has directed him to argue over the case, a private TV reported.
He said the federation wanted the counsel of its choice to argue over the case.
During the hearing, the Advocate on Record,

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 - 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 - The Supreme Court was informed on Friday that two missing people, Adnan and one other, were activists of a banned organisation Tehreek-e Islamia.
Appearing on notice in a case of two missing persons, Islamabad Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIGP) Binyamin contended before the court that Zahida Parveen, mother of Adnan, was also an important activist of the Tehreek-e-Islamia.
A three-member bench of Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice

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 - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that available documentary evidence incriminated MPA Moonis Elahi, son of PML-Q leader Pervez Elahi, of involvement in the NICL scam.
The FIA also informed the court that Rs 1.68 billion had so far been recovered, while efforts were underway for recovery of the remaining Rs 42 million. Appearing on notice, FIA Additional Director General Zafar Qureshi submitted a progress report on the scam

ISLAMBAD - The Supreme Court (SC) has permitted the separation of Kamal Azfar, counsel of the federation, from the ongoing hearing of the National Reconciliation Order (NRO) review case here on Thursday.
Earlier on April 11, the Supreme Court rejected the government's request to change its senior counsel, Kamal Azfar, in the NRO review petition and adjourned the hearing till the following day, a private TV reported.
The apex court ordered former Attorney General Malik Abdul

ISLAMABAD - Amidst unusual emotional scenes, the Supreme Court accepted for regular hearing on Wednesday a presidential reference seeking to revisit the death sentence of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani was hearing the reference, filed under Article 186 of the constitution, seeking the reopening of the murder trial of the first democratically

ISLAMABAD - Expressing dissatisfaction over the progress so far made in the recovery of missing persons, the Supreme Court on Wednesday summoned the interior minister, provincial home ministers, home secretaries and inspectors general of police of all the provinces.
A three-member SC bench, comprising Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, heard the cases of missing persons one by one. The court observed that parliament should legislate to

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to take action against the accused involved in over Rs 22 billion corruption in Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM). A three-member Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani was hearing the case of massive corruption in PSM. The court also directed the industries secretary to continue supervising the investigations. During the

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the national exchequer suffered a loss of Rs 7 billion due to evasion of customs duty by ISAF containers at the Chaman crossing along the Pak-Afghan border.
Appearing on notice, FBR Chairman Salman Siddique told a three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani that a total of 2,981 containers went missing, of which 408

ISLAMABAD - During a hearing of the missing persons' case on Wednesday, Justice Javed Iqbal said it was government's responsibility and not Supreme Court's to recover these people whereas 222 missing persons had been traced due to the apex court's efforts.
According to a private TV, Justice Raja Fayyaz asked why this issue has not yet been raised in the parliament.
Moreover Justice Fayyaz ordered to submit complete details of the dead bodies found so far.
Defence of

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court (SC) asked the government on Tuesday to clarify its stance over the role and status of the Parliamentary Committee (PC) vis-a-vis Article 68 of the constitution. "Can eight parliamentarians discuss the conduct of judges when the entire parliament is barred from doing so under Article 68 of the constitution?" questioned Justice Jawwad S Khawaja during arguments of Additional Attorney General KK Agha in the government's review petition against a SC verdict

ISLAMABAD - Hearing a petition against the worsening law and order in Balochistan, the Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request by the advocate general for conducting in-camera hearing on the case. A three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani was hearing a petition filed by the Balochistan High Court Bar Association president against target killings, abductions for ransom and the overall poor law and order in

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

KARACHI - Dilawar Fareed Baig, a relative of former Sindh home minister Zulfiqar Mirza, has been removed from the post of Director Training and Development at Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) under the Supreme Court's ruling on superannuation. It has been learnt that Baig was granted extension for two years during the former PIA managing director Ejaz Haroon's period, but now he had to leave after crossing the age limit approved by the apex court.
The airlines' Chief