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LAHORE: President Asif Ali Zardari’s Swiss cases cannot be reopened even if Islamabad makes an official request, as the president enjoys immunity under international law, a private TV channel quoted Geneva’s Attorney General Daniel Zappelli as saying on Saturday. Zappelli said even if they received a proper request by Pakistan with all the required stances [...]
ISLAMABAD: The federal ministry for law and justice once again was in the limelight on Saturday for wrong reasons as one of its top officers resigned reportedly because of an alleged row with Law Minister Babar Awan, a source told our correspondent. Senior Joint Secretary Akbar Khan Achakzai has resigned from his post because he [...]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s national assembly on Thursday unanimously approved reforms stripping President Asif Ali Zardari of key powers in a move to bolster parliamentary
LAHORE: A petition has been filed in Lahore Registry of Supreme Court on Saturday for withdrawal of the court orders about reopening of the Swiss cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. Petitioner Barrister Zafarullah in his plea argued that under Article 248 of the constitution the President of Pakistan enjoys immunity in criminal cases requesting [...]
NEW YORK: The United Nations on Thursday rejected Pakistan’s request to reopen the independent probe into the killing of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, saying there is no need to include any further information as the report is “complete”. “The Commissioners have informed the United Nations that the report is complete,” UN spokesperson Martin Nesirky [...]
ISLAMABAD: Law Ministry functionaries are not interested in implementing the Supreme Court’s historic verdict on NRO
ISLAMABAD: A letter has been sent to Switzerland’s Attorney-General to reopen corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) lawyer Abid Zuberi told the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The move came after the Supreme Court ordered the NAB to revive all corruption cases after it threw out a controversial amnesty for Zardari, [...]
GENEVA: Pakistan has not asked Swiss authorities to reopen a corruption case against President Asif Ali Zardari, Geneva’s public prosecutor said on Wednesday. In any case, Zardari enjoys immunity from prosecution as a head of state, Prosecutor-General Daniel Zappelli told Reuters. “I have not received any request,” Zappelli said, commenting on news from Islamabad that [...]
ISLAMABAD: A High level meeting jointly presided over by Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and President Asif Ali Zardari had decided that the PPP government would go ahead with the tabling of the constitution reforms package before the parliament despite hurdles. The meeting deliberated upon current political situation in the country in the backdrop [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan’s registrar office Saturday returned government’s plea for NRO review on technical grounds. The federal government submitted in the Supreme Court on Monday that reopening Swiss cases would be like putting the late Benazir Bhutto on trial and it was against all norms of justice, decency, morality and law. Barrister [...]
ISLAMABAD: The federal government submitted in the Supreme Court on Monday that reopening Swiss cases would be like putting the late Benazir Bhutto on trial and it was against all norms of justice, decency, morality and law. The submission was made in the form of additional grounds for the government’s pending petition seeking review of [...]
RAWALPINDI: Haji Abdur Razzaq Yaqoob, Abdur Rauf and Jan Muhammad, the accused in the ARY gold corruption reference, have prayed to the court to cancel their summons. Amjad Iqbal Qureshi, the legal counsel for the appellants, filed an application before the Accountability Court-II here on Monday, pleading that his clients were already acquitted on merit [...]
ISLAMABAD: The government has filed in Supreme Court (SC) an amended petition to review verdict against National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) on Monday. The PPP
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau is sending its team to the United Kingdom to bring back 12 boxes containing records of President Asif Ali Zardari’s Swiss cases, sources told The Statesmen. The NAB team headed by its Chief of Staff, Islamabad, Muhammad Ashfaq will soon leave for London to take into custody the record lying [...]
With the fairly substantive and meaningful shake-up in the top hierarchy of the Pakistan Army now complete, the key issue of Lt Gen Shuja Pasha continuing as the ISI head being the last major decision, it can be said without doubt that the politicians have surrendered the policy control and initiative on all key national [...]
KARACHI: District government has been unable to start construction work of a flyover on Shahra-e-Faisal for more than three months now. The delay in construction is not due to lack of funds, but because of a house belonging to president Zardari. Officials at the district government say that the chief minister of Sindh has ordered [...]
ISLAMABAD: The ambassador to Syria, after appointing his kith and kin at the Pakistan International School in Damascus (PISD), has turned rough on the teacher who went vocal against him in the media and has issued a show-cause notice to her. But Ms Manal Suleman, the only teacher in Syria who conducts biology practical for [...]
ISLAMABAD: The state-run National Engineering Services Pakistan (Nespak), a prestigious professional organisation, has also been hit by controversial appointments, tales of corruption in so many other national institutions notwithstanding. The Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) chairperson former Senator Rukhsana Zuberi confirmed to The Statesmen that she recently wrote a letter to the prime minister questioning the [...]
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