Tag: Verdict

The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Punjab chapter held a protest against the Lahore High Court (LHC) verdict on President Asif Ali Zardari’s dual office...

The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is still indecisive about political campaigning against the Lahore High Court (LHC) decision against the dual offices of President...

Mukhtaran Mai filed a review petition on Thursday against the Supreme Court verdict rejecting her appeal by a majority of two to one against...

Supreme Court Bar Association President Asma Jahangir has criticised the SC judgment in PCO judges case which declared seven judges, who took oath under...

The Peoples’ Lawyers Forum (PLF) on Monday termed the Lahore High Court (LHC) decision in the dual office case against President Asif Ali Zardari,...

Napoleon Qayyum, leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party’s minority wing, has expressed dismay at the Lahore High Court’s verdict in President Zardari dual office...

The legal fraternity has expressed serious reservations over the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)-led government’s protests against the Lahore High Court (LHC)’s verdict in PPP...

Former law minister Babar Awan said the verdict of the Lahore High Court ordering President Asif Ali Zardari to stop political activities in Presidency...

Prominent legal experts on Thursday welcomed the decision of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on president’s dual offices as it was strictly in accordance...

A anti-terrorism court on Saturday reserved its verdict on a petition filed by six persons arrested in Pakistan in connection with Mumbai attacks. The...

ISLAMABAD - After the Supreme Court (SC)'s dismissal of the government's review petition against the apex court's order overruling the Parliamentary Committee's decision to reject the Judicial Commission's recommendations on judges' appointments, the Parliamentary Committee may bring the final verdict of the apex court to parliament for debate. During the hearing of the review plea, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja remarked that the eight-member parliamentary committee did not have the status

ISLAMABAD - As the courtroom was packed to capacity on Thursday during the hearing of the ZA Bhutto case, lawyers and PPP leaders outside the court made careful statements, understandably not to annoy the court. All those who talked to reporters praised the goodwill gesture shown by the court vis-a-vis the presidential reference despite the recent bitterness between the executive and the judiciary on non-implementation of court verdicts. Soon after the hearing of the case, former law

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court will today (Monday) start hearing a petition against the dissolution of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to the provinces and the government's petition seeking a review of the court's verdict on the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO).
The petition against the HEC dissolution will be heard by a three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani. Senior advocate Anwar Mansoor

ISLAMABAD - A petition, seeking initiation of contempt of court proceedings, was filed in the Supreme Court on Friday against Justice (r) Nasim Hassan Shah for calling former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's death sentence a "judicial murder".
Justice (r) Shah was a member of the seven-member CS bench and one of the four judges, who had convicted Bhutto. However, later talking to reporters he had said the verdict was a judicial murder. The petition was filed by Tariq Asad and

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Monday delayed operation of its verdict until April 11 in which it had overturned the Parliamentary Committee's (PC) decision of rejecting one-year extension to six additional judges of the Lahore and Sindh High Courts recommended by the Judicial Commission of Pakistan, directing the federal government to issue a notification to give them one-year extension. A four-member bench of Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja,

ISLAMABAD - Senators on Thursday demanded a debate on the Supreme Court's ruling against the decision of the parliamentary committee on judges' appointments. The committee had denied extension to four additional judges of the Lahore High Court, but the SC overturned the decision. Ishaq Dar proposed that a detailed judgment of the SC be discussed in the House and recommendations be submitted to the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms to remove lacunae, if any, in the

ISLAMABAD - The government filed a review petition on Monday against the Supreme Court (SC)'s decision overturning the Parliamentary Committee (PC)'s rejection to grant one-year extensions to six additional judges of the Lahore High Court (LHC) and Sindh High Court (SHC), which were recommended by the Judicial Commission. In the review petition filed through Deputy Attorney General KK Agha, the government contended that an incorrect and flawed assumption was made in the apex court's