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ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed dozens of appeals filed by the employees of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL), seeking benefit of Voluntary Separation Scheme (VSS).
A three-member Supreme Court bench, comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Tariq Parvez and Justice Ghulam Rabbani, announced the judgment which had, earlier, been reserved. The employees had applied for the benefit of VSS but were denied on the ground that they

LAHORE: Full bench of Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday reinstated two Punjab University Center for High Energy of Physics (CHEP) assistant professors that were sacked by the varsity administration on the charges of plagiarism. Dr Maqsood Ahmad and Dr Alam Saeed are among the restored teachers whereas two other teachers Sohail Afzal and Rasheed Ahmad, who were also sacked, still wait for the Lahore High Court judgment.
The bench headed by SC Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry

LAHORE: Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan on Wednesday converted the removal of a sweeper of Quaid-e-Azam Library into compulsory retirement, while hearing a Punjab government appeal against his restoration by Punjab Service Tribunal. Appearing before the court on behalf of the Punjab government, Advocate Salma submitted that sweeper Riaz Masih was removed from service on September 05, 2006 after long absence of two years from service. She said the service tribunal restored him against

ISLAMABAD: The judicial commission formed on the Supreme Court's orders for the recovery of thousands of missing persons from across the country will submit a comprehensive report with the SC and the Interior Ministry by December 31.
Sources told Pakistan Today on Tuesday that the commission earlier had to submit its report on August 28. However, it could not do so for unknown reasons. The judicial commission was formed in March 2010 with Justice (r) Kamal Mansoor Alam, a former

ISLAMABAD: Accepting an application for early hearing, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has constituted a three-member Supreme Court bench to settle a law point whether the fresh election nomination papers could be accepted after the scrutiny.
The bench comprising Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan and Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed will hear the case on Dec 23. The application for early hearing of a pending civil review petition was filed by Chaudhry Muhammad

LAHORE: A three-member Supreme Court (SC) bench led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Monday scolded the Defence Housing Authority (DHA), Lahore administration for not giving passage rights through its roads and streets to residents of housing schemes located nearby, such as Punjab Cooperative Housing Society. The SC bench also sought the entire land and roads record including map of the DHA, Lahore today (Tuesday) for further proceedings.
During the case's hearing,

LAHORE: Hearing of a petition challenging the pardon granted by President Asif Ali Zardari to Interior Minister Rehman Malik was adjourned to December 24 by a full bench of Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday. Earlier, Deputy Attorney General Naveed Inayat Malik had requested adjournment on behalf of the federation, citing Rehman's pending adjudication in Supreme Court as an excuse.
Barrister Farooq Hassan, representing the petitioner, opposed the request saying the government was

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Wednesday said the prime minister had honoured the court by sacking two ministers of his cabinet.
He was heading a three-member SC hearing a suo motu case initiated over the loss of five lives in a drag car race held in Rawalpindi, reportedly without the permission of the district administration.
Addressing the Rawalpindi Regional Police Officer (RPO) Hamid Mukhtar Gondal, the CJP said two "ministers

ISLAMABD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday constituted a four-member commission comprising former bureaucrats to probe the case of unauthorized diversion of floodwater and breaches in the embankments of barrages and canals by influential people to save their lands during the devastating floods.
The bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday was hearing a suo motu case coupled with pleas against the diversion

ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui on Wednesday observed that the violation of a court order by a judge could not be considered just only misconduct, but something beyond it. The bench, headed by Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui and consisting of Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez, was hearing contempt charges against superior courts' judges who took oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) in

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Pakistani government's Central Power Generation Company (CPGC) Ltd to hold an inquiry and fix responsibility on the officials involved in making a US$21.43 million advance payment to Walter Power International (WPI) and its associate Pakistan Power Resources (PPR) headed by Iqbal Z. Ahmed for installation of the Guddu and Naudero-II Rental Power Projects.
A three-member bench of Chief

ISLAMABAD: Army generals who violated the Supreme Court's restraining order issued by a seven-judge bench on November 3, 2007, will be issued contempt notices, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja said on Monday.
The bench was hearing contempt charges against superior courts' judges who took oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) in defiance of the Supreme Court orders. The bench on Monday dismissed objections of PCO judges on the bench's composition, rejecting a plea for the

ISLAMABAD: Having learnt about the lukewarm response of police towards the accused of conducting a drag race that killed five and injured two people, the Supreme Court (SC) on Monday directed the Punjab police chief to arrest them all four accused and report in court today (Tuesday).
A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday noted that "prima facie it indicates that without

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday allowed time until the second week of January to the government to engage a lawyer to defend the appointment of Justice (r) Syed Deedar Hussain Shah as the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman.
A five-member bench headed by Justice Javed Iqbal adjourned the hearing after the court was told that the federation had not yet engaged a lawyer to plead the case. Senior advocates Muhammad Akram Sheikh appeared for the petitioner - Leader

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday directed all parties to submit in court by the second week of January the relevant record of illegal sale of 26.5 kanals of land in the Diplomatic Enclave to Hamid Yar Hiraj, chairman of the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA).
A three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday was conducting a suo motu hearing on a case regarding the allotment

ISLAMABAD: The newly constituted four-member bench of the Supreme Court will hear toady (Monday) contempt charges against the superior courts' former judges who took oath under the PCO in November 2007. The bench comprises Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez. Besides counsels for the PCO judges, Attorney General Moulvi Anwarul Haq will also appear before the bench on notice.
Earlier on December 6,

ISLAMABAD: A seven-member Supreme Court bench, resuming hearing today of a suo motu action against alleged corruption in Haj arrangements, is likely to direct the government to devise a system to make the Haj process transparent and prevent irregularities.
The bench comprises of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed, Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman