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Pakistan People’s Party-backed Yaseen Azad was elected president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) on Saturday by defeating the Hamid Khan group-backed candidate,...

The annual election of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) is being held today (Saturday) and Rasheed A Rizvi and Yasin Azad have intensified...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) is all set to hold an international conference from Sept 9-11 at Lahore, expected to be attended by...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) is holding an international conference from September 9 to 11. Over a hundred foreign delegates from Bangladesh, Malaysia,...

The countdown has begun to tighten the noose around fake immigration consultants and manpower agents, responsible for swindling millions of rupees out of –...

The Supreme Court Bar Association has come across the shortage of over Rs 8.9 million in the Bar’s Trust account. The audit conducted on the...

Supreme Court Bar Association has constituted six committees nationwide to address matters relating to human rights, lawyers welfare, women’s harassment and bar associations etc. The...

Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has demanded of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to sack Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaulah from the provincial cabinet...

Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Secretary Qamar Zaman Qureshi announced on Tuesday to launch the Pakistan Zindabad Movement to create awareness among masses about...

Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Asma Jahangir said on Tuesday that by not inducting judges from amongst lawyers of Lahore, the Judicial Commission...

LAHORE - Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Aasma Jahangir condemned the police's torture of Punjab Tenants' Association, young doctors and lady health workers and their arrests. In a statement issued on Thursday, she said that the police 'highhandedness' on the protestors exposed the slogan of good governance in Punjab. She said holding a protest was a basic human right and people could not take to roads when their rights were not protected.
She said that in a

LAHORE - A Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) delegation, led by President Asma Jahangir, will leave for India today (Wednesday) at the invitation of the Indian Supreme Court Bar Association.
The delegation, consisting of 150 lawyers, will attend a seminar at Jaipur on March 19 and 20. Former SCBA president Ali Ahmed Kurd will also accompany the delegation, which will cross that Wagah Border at 10:30am today. The Delhi High Court Bar Association and the Indian Supreme Court Bar

ISLAMABAD - Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Asma Jahangir and Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) Vice Chairman Latif Afridi on Friday held a meeting with Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and apprised him about their reservations over a recent full court meeting of the Supreme Court that decided to appoint two retired Supreme Court judges on an ad hoc basis.
Talking to reporters later, Asma said that they had "apprised the CJP about their reservations

LAHORE - The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) on Tuesday condemned the unanimous resolution passed in a full court reference of the Supreme Court (SC) in favour of appointment of Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday and Justice Rehmat Jafri as ad-hoc judges for one more year.
During a press conference, SCBA President Asma Jahangir said that bars were showing strong resentment against the resolution and by adopting a resolution for appointment of ad-hoc judges, judges have taken a

ISLAMABAD - A divide was witnessed among members of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) over the Supreme Court's decision of framing contempt charge against the nine PCO judges, defying the apex court's November 3, 2007, order.
Some of the association's members welcomed the SCBA members and called it historic, while others, including its president Asma Jehangir, opposed the verdict, considering it contrary to the constitutional provisions. A majority of the SCBA members in

LAHORE - Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Asma Jahangir has expressed grief on the death of senior journalist Minhaj Barna, founder president of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists.
In a condolence message for Minhaj, who died in Rawalpindi on Friday, the SCBA president said Minhaj's life was unending struggle, as he believed in journalistic principles and worked without compromising voice of the conscience and professional integrity.
Asma said Minhaj never

KARACHI: Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Asma Jahangir has denied reports which appeared on Sunday in newspapers claiming that the SCBA executive committee had passed a resolution against amendments in the blasphemy laws and pardon for Aasia Bibi.
In a statement issued here on Sunday, Asma Jahangir said an SCBA executive committee member had tabled a resolution regarding these matters during the committee's second meeting endorsing due reverence for the name of the