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ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms (PCCR) on Friday unanimously approved all recommendations given by the Supreme Court (SC) regarding the appointment of judges.
The committee's recommendations will now be presented in the upcoming session of the National Assembly. The parliamentary committee for judges' appointment will have eight members - four each from the National Assembly and the Senate.
The four members from the Senate will continue to

ISLAMABAD: Taking suo motu notice of a multi-million dollar scam in the rental power plants (RPPs) project, Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Chaudhry on Friday issued notice to the NEPRA chairman to appear and refute with documentary proof the corruption allegations.
The CJP also issued notices to the proprietors and owners of the Central Power Generation Co Ltd through NEPRA to appear and submit a reply. Notices were also served on WAPDA and PEPCO.
The CJP, however,

ISLAMABAD: Taking suo motu notice of the alleged irregularities in haj arrangements, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Friday issued notices to the ministers of Religious Affairs and Science and Technology, the attorney general of Pakistan, Religious Affairs secretary, FIA Director General, NAB Chairman and others to appear before a special bench on December 6 and explain the allegations.
Through notices, both Hamid Saeed Kazmi and Azam Swati have

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its verdict until December 6 on a plea against the composition of the bench hearing contempt of court cases against PCO judges.
The five-member larger bench of Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez, was hearing contempt of court cases against superior courts' judges, who had taken oath under the Provisional Constitutional

ISLAMABAD: A three-member Supreme Court (SC) bench directed the provinces on Wednesday to submit their reports in the case of unauthorised diversion of floodwater.
The bench of Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur-Rehman Ramday was hearing a suo motu notice on the issue and the CJ said that legal action would be taken against respondents and provinces who had not filed their reports on the issue.
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ISLAMABAD: Reservations were expressed over the date on which the summary advising the President to promulgate the National Accountability (Amendment) Ordinance 2010 was issued from the Prime Minister office to the Presidency by the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
"It appears that the letter written by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to the President Asif Ali Zardari to approve and sign the National Accountability (Amendment) Ordinance, 2010 was tampered with," the Chief Justice

ISLAMABAD: A five-member Supreme Court larger bench was on Wednesday asked to first decide whether the PCO judges were served with only a notice or a show cause notice under the Contempt of Court Ordinance 2003, and then conduct further hearing into the matter.
The bench of Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez was conducting contempt of court hearing on cases against PCO

ISLAMABAD: Dr Abdul Basit, counsel for Justice Shabbar Raza Rizvi and Justice Hasnat Ahmed Khan, on Tuesday objected to the formation of the Supreme Court bench hearing contempt of court cases against the PCO judges.
Dr Basit contended that three judges of the bench had had an "ugly incident" with his clients, thus they did not want these judges to hear their case. A five-member SC bench, comprising Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui,
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ISLAMABAD: A senior lawyer argued before the Supreme Court on Monday that it had no jurisdiction to conduct contempt proceedings against judges of superior courts, as only the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) was the appropriate forum to initiate such proceedings under Article 209 of the constitution.
A five-member larger bench of the Supreme Court consisting of Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain

ISLAMABAD: A five-member larger bench of the Supreme Court will take up today (Monday) the long awaited contempt-of-court cases against the judges who had taken oath under the November 3, 2007 Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) in defiance of its (SC) restraining order.
The bench comprising Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez will also hear replies and review

ISLAMABAD: A three-member Supreme Court bench on Friday directed the federation to avoid delaying tactics and ensure presence of its counsel Abdul Hafeez Pirzada on the next hearing or engage another lawyer to plead the petitions challenging the appointment of Justice (r) Deedar Hussain Shah as National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman.
When the bench, comprising Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja and Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, took up challenges to the

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that it had jurisdiction under the constitution to serve notices to intelligence agencies as no one was above the law.
"The Supreme Court has wider jurisdiction under Articles 184(3) and 185 of the constitution to issue notices to the respondents in cases of public importance," the court ruled.
A three-member Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and

ISLAMABAD: A three-member Supreme Court bench on Wednesday declined to grant
a stay order on leasing of the Reko Diq gold mines in Balochistan, worth over $260 billion, to foreign exploration companies.
The bench comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday was hearing a petition against leasing out Reko Diq gold and copper mines in Balochistan to foreign companies by the federal

ISLAMABAD: A three-member Supreme Court bench on Tuesday summoned the Punjab inspector general (IG) of police to explain within a week why the court's earlier orders on the issue of police officers' promotion had not been implemented so far.
The bench consisting of Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja and Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali noted that its previous orders of October 28 pertaining to the submission of a comprehensive report over the promotion of each police

ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms (PCCR) is considering two options to incorporate the Supreme Court's recommendations on Article 175-A, which deals with the mechanism for the appointment of judges.
In its meeting on Tuesday, the committee discussed options that included a constitutional amendment and a resolution to be adopted in the joint session of parliament to give effect to the recommendations of the Supreme Court.
Talking to reporters

YANGON: Myanmar's Supreme Court has refused to hear democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's lawsuit against the junta for dissolving her party ahead of elections, an official in the army-ruled country said Monday.
"The case was rejected by the Supreme Court in Naypyidaw," a government official, who did not want to named, told AFP.
Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) was disbanded for boycotting the November 7 vote in response to rules that seemed designed to bar the

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) director general to arrest the main culprits in the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) scam, including NICL Chairman Ayaz Khan and Mohsin Warriach.
A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, was conducting suo motu hearing on a case regarding the alleged violation of rules by the NICL chairman in the procurement of land, which caused huge