Tag: Summons

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday issued summon orders for the Sindh Chief Secretary, Cooperative Societies Secretary among others seeking explanation on a constitutional petition regarding corruption and mismanagement in different cooperative housing society schemes.
The SHC division bench headed by Justice Maqbool Baqar after hearing preliminary arguments by the petitioner issued notice to the respondents and directed them to submit their comments on the next

LAHORE - The Lahore Consumer Court on Monday summoned the Future Concern Immigration Agency chief executive for March 25 for cheating citizens for Canadian immigration and swindling Rs 0.3 million from citizen Azhar Iftikhar. Complainant Azhar Iftikhar said that Future Concern Immigration Agency Chief Executive Asim Malik took Rs 0.3 million from him in April 2010 for processing his immigration to Canada but embezzled the amount. The complainant said that Malik had taken the fees to

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Monday issued a notice to the attorney general for March 14 on a petition challenging Diplomatic and Consular Privileges Act, 1972, calling it against fundamental human rights guaranteed in the constitution.
Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry passed the order on a petition filed by petitioner-counsel Muhammad Azhar Siddique. The petitioner-counsel contended the act was in conflict with the fundamental rights as envisaged in the Constitution 1973

LAHORE - Two more witnesses of the Sialkot lynching case Saturday recorded their statements in an anti-terrorism court (ATC), which summoned all the witnesses on February 25, a private TV channel reported.
Hearing of the lynching case, in which two brothers were killed by a mob, was held at the Central Jail Gujranwala. Two witnesses, Shehzad, a journalist, and Sakhawat Ali recorded their statements, while defence lawyers also completed their cross-examination. According to the

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Monday issued summons for Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's son Abdul Qadir Gilani for his alleged involvement in the Haj scam. Sources said the decision to interrogate Abdul Qadir was taken following the SC's directions to FIA to question him in connection with the scam.
They said Abdul Qadir allegedly received Rs 20 million from former Haj DG Shakil Ahmad. In his statement to the FIA, PML-N MNA Imran Shah had said Abdul

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court on Thursday summoned the Pakistan Army's legal officer (deputy judge advocate-general) Headquarters Corps V, Karachi, the directors general (DGs) of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Military Intelligence (MI) and Pakistan Rangers, and the Sindh home secretary on four different constitutional petitions seeking comments on missing persons.
The SHC division bench comprising Chief Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany and Justice Ghulam Sarwar Korai issued

ISLAMABAD - Police Deputy Inspector General Major (r) Mubasharullah told the Supreme Court on Friday that Islamabad's former IG Kalim Imam had phoned him and asked to accept the affidavits being filed on behalf of Ali Riaz, Bahria Town's chief executive and one of the accused in illegal drag race case in which an accident claimed five lives.
A four-member bench, composed of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice

LAHORE - An accountability court on Friday summoned former minister for food Iqbal Tikka with his brother Azam Tikka, son-in-law Hammad Tikka and Adil Saleem Tikka, newly nominated co-accused in a reference filed against Sheikh Muhammad Ayub the owner of renowned Qasr-e-Zauk for February 2.
National Accountability Bureau had nominated Iqbal Tikka, Azam Tikka, Hammad Tikka and Adil Saleem Tikka by following the direction of Supreme Court during the hearing of a suo motu notice

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Wednesday summoned for today (Thursday) the complete record of the contract of the lease of the Reko Diq copper and gold reserves to foreign exploration and mining companies.
A four-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, also directed the former and incumbent Balochistan chief secretaries to appear in court today (Thursday) along with the

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday issued summons for Moonis Elahi, son of former Punjab chief minister Pervaiz Elahi, in the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) scam case. FIA Additional Director General (ADG) Zafar Qureshi said the FIA had issued summons to Moonis to appear before the FIA investigation team to explain his involvement in the NICL scam.
"The FIA team has called him for investigation but if he does not appear before the

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Thursday issued notice to SECP, owners of UBL and others respondents in a petition challenging the sale of UBL with unlawful clarification of Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan that caused huge financial loss to 29,000 small shareholders of the bank across the country.
The court in its order further directed that that purchase/ acquisition of UBL shares by Bestways Group from Abu Dhabi Group, if conducted, will be subject to final

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Punjab government to present a complete report over compensations given to the victims of police and lawyers' clash that took place at Aiwan-e-Adl Lahore last year.
A three-member bench, comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, was hearing a suo motu case of alleged police torture of lawyers.
Punjab Advocate General Khawaja Haris told the court that

LAHORE - Lahore High Court Justice Farooq Shiekh on Tuesday called Auqaf chief administrator to appear on February 7 on a petition filed by a contractor at the Shrine of Hazrat Farid Ganj Shakar, Pakpattan.
The petition has been filed by Syed Sajid Hussain through Manzoor Ali Gillani submitting that the petitioner suffered a loss on account of closure of four of five main entry gates of the shrine. The petitioner says he was awarded shoes-safety (hifazate paposh) contract against

LAHORE - A civil court on Tuesday summoned former attorney general Justice (r) Malik Qayyum, Asian Gas Private Limited Chief Executive Ammar Ahmad Khan, Senator Gulzar Ahmad Khan, Iqbal Tikka and 10 other people for February 7 to on a petition filed by businessman Sheikh Ayub and his son Sheikh Mohsin Ayub for cancellation of documents in favour of Asian Gas Private Limited Chief Executive Ammar Ahmad Khan regarding property commonly known as Qasr-e-Zauq.
In the petition filed

LAHORE - An accountability court on Saturday summoned former Haj director general (DG) Major (r) Rao Shakeel Ahmed on January 21 to join the hearing of a reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against him. Earlier, the court had exempted Shakeel from appearance in court, as he was serving as Khanewal DCO and had to participate in several official meetings.
A reference has been filed against Shakeel accusing the former Haj DG of collaborating with his father

KARACHI - Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) Tahir Masood Arain has been summoned by the Sindh High Court (SHC) over harassing his business partner through the Thatta police.
Tufail Zakaria filed a constitutional petition against the MPA and the Thatta police seeking protection.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany and Justice Muneeb Akhter issued notices to the MPA and the SHO of Thatta's Dhabeji police station for filing comments.
The

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed Attorney General Anwarul Haq to present the draft and other relevant record of the National Accountability (Amendment) Ordinance 2010.
A three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday also directed the petitioner, PML-N Senator Syed Zafar Ali Shah, to provide solid evidence today (Wednesday) to prove his claims that the president did not consult the prime