Law Ministry not interested to implement NRO verdict: CJ

ISLAMABAD: Law Ministry functionaries are not interested in implementing the Supreme Court’s historic verdict on NRO
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ISLAMABAD: Law Ministry functionaries are not interested in implementing the Supreme Court’s historic verdict on NRO

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Azad Jummu and Kashmir has put constitutional experts in a state of shock when it came at loggerheads with the Supreme Court of Pakistan over the unconstitutional appointment of the AJK chief justice. The incumbent Chief Justice of AJK, Riaz Akhtar Chaudhry, while heading a three-member bench on March 15, [...]

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary has ordered the IGPs, home secretaries, Advocates General of all the four provinces

ISLAMABAD: A letter from Punjab Governor Salman Taseer written to President Asif Ali Zardari during the recent crisis over judicial appointments has revealed apprehensions of alleged nepotism within the superior judiciary as was reported earlier by ‘The Statesmen’. ‘The Statesmen’ has obtained a summary of the governor sent to the presidency with detailed comments about [...]

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has said there was a clear point of difference in the views of Prime Minister Syed Yusuf

ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms reached agreement on Tuesday on proposed constitutional amendment over procedure for appointment of

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan said on Friday it will not examine evidence against intelligence agencies in the missing persons’ case. A written order released to the media states that evidence and allegations of involvement of intelligence agencies in abducting people will be examined by an ‘appropriate forum at the relevant time.’ The [...]

ISLAMABAD: Five district and sessions judges, two of them already retired, and a registrar are included in the 31 justices appointed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) and Sindh High Court (SHC). Of them, Nisar Mohammad Shaikh was working as registrar of the SHC while Justice Syed Zakir Hussain was serving as district judge Thattha. [...]

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari expressed satisfaction on Friday over the end of confrontation between the government and

LAHORE: Twenty-two newly appointed judges of the Lahore High Court have taken oath from LHC Chief Justice Khawaja Sharif on Friday. The newly appointed additional judges of Lahore High Court belong to Rawalpindi, Lahore, Bahawalpur, Chakwal, Gujranwala, Jehlum, Multan, Narowal, and Sheikhpura. After the appointment of 22 additional judges in Lahore High Court, the strength [...]

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari signed on Wednesday a new summary regarding appointment of three judges of the Supreme Court and 22 additional judges of Lahore High Court (LHC) and nine of Sindh High Court (SHC), presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said. The president, on the advice of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, appointed Justice Saqib [...]

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Wednesday that his government has accepted the recommendations of the Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry. Gilani

Powers of the executive and chief justices are likely to be conclusively settled in the forthcoming judgment of the apex court on

ISLAMABAD: Leaders of parties in the ruling coalition urged President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday to withdraw the notifications regarding elevation of Lahore High Court judges to end confrontation between the government and the judiciary. Sources said the proposal was made at a meeting attended by Farooq Sattar of MQM, Maulana Fazlur Rehman of JUI-F, [...]

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry’s meeting with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani at the PM house lasted for two and half hours in a pleasant environment on Wednesday (Today) in Islamabad to find the way out of the ongoing crisis. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani took on Tuesday a major initiative in what appeared to be an [...]

KARACHI: Bar associations across Pakistan passed a unanimous resolution on Monday declaring the February 13 presidential order regarding judges’ appointment illegal. At least

RAWALPINDI: The national coordination council of lawyers decided on Sunday to boycott courts on Monday in protest against Saturday’s notifications about two Lahore High Court judges in disregard of recommendations of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry. Addressing a press conference, Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) chief Qazi Mohammad Anwar accused President Asif Ali Zardari of [...]

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari will preside over a PPP meeting on Monday to chalk out a line of action to cope with the new judicial crisis which erupted after he issued notifications about two Lahore High Court judges. “It will be a dinner meeting attended by PPP parliamentarians,” presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar told our [...]

ISLAMABAD: The Quaid Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif has said Sunday the government has started confronting with judiciary and termed the government-judiciary crisis as formidable for democracy. He said PML-N will continue playing its role necessary for survival of democracy. Chairing an important advisory meeting of party members here in Punjab [...]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan headed into fresh crisis Sunday with President Asif Ali Zardari locked into a humiliating confrontation with the country’s top judicial authority over the appointment of a senior judge. The crisis arose when the president appeared to ignore a candidate nominated by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry for a vacancy on the Supreme Court, [...]