Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) deputy convener Farooq Sattar criticized display of weapons and use of force during the recent by-polls in Punjab on Saturday. Addressing a public gathering in Karachi, Sattar said…
A three-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC) hearing the suo motu case against Malik Riaz for conducting a news conference maligning the judiciary, declined to put him on exit control list…
Real estate tycoon Malik Riaz’s legal counsel, Zahid Bukhari said on Wednesday that there was no need to take Suo motu notice as their was no human right violation in Dr Arsalan…
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Wednesday took suo motu notice of PPP candidate Waheed Shah physical abuse of female polling staff during by election on Feb 25. The Supreme Court issued…
Minister for Planning Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor on Friday moved an application to Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to take suo motu notice against Lahore High Court (LHC) judgment under which…
Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Thursday took suo motu notice of Lahore factory collapse. According to reports, a three-member bench headed by Justice Shakir Ullah Jan will hear the…
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Monday took suo motu notice of the death of over 100 heart patients, under treatment at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC), allegedly…
Pakistan Industrial and Traders Association Front (PIAF) has urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to initiate suo moto proceedings and direct work on Kalabagh Dam if the politicians…
The forum of several political-cum-religious parties, the Difa-e-Pakistan Council on Monday asked the Supreme Court of Pakistan to take suo motu action against drone attack in Pakistan. They said the SC to…
The Balochistan High Court chief justice on Thursday took suo motu notice of the Mastung incident in which 29 Shia pilgrims were killed and seven others injured, as over 200 members of…
Like the Supreme Court, the use of suo motu judicial review by the high courts may reduce grievances of common citizens deprived of justice by various public and private sector dispensations. The…
The Supreme Court’s verdict on its suo motu on city violence was reserved on Thursday. During the proceedings, the SC discussed many important points, after Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad…
The law enforcement agencies (LEAs) and the Sindh Home Department allegedly continue to exaggerate the number of target killers arrested and cache of weapons recovered from them to satisfy the Supreme Court…
Lahore High Court Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry on Thursday disposed of suo motu notice taken on the killing of a youth in a fake police encounter in Nishtar Colony on…
Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry late Thursday took suo motu notice of the murder of an unarmed youth by the Rangers in Karachi and constituted a larger bench to hear…
ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court was told on Tuesday that it had the jurisdiction and power to review the decisions of the Parliamentary Committee under the Article 184 of the constitution.
A four-member special bench comprising Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Tariq Parvez and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain was hearing the government’s review petition against the apex court’s March 4 decision, which set aside the committee’s decision to reject
ISLAMABAD – The federal government on Monday questioned the Supreme Court’s suo motu jurisdiction under Article 184 (3) of the Constitution contending that it denied the federation’s full right of appeal in breach of Article 10 (A), besides violating the injunctions of Islam with regards to maintainability. Arguing on a review petition against the court’s verdict of declaring the decision of parliamentary committee (PC) for appointment of judges null and void, Additional Attorney
