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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has directed the Ministry of petroleum to file a complete record by April 14 regarding a 25 billion dollar Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) scam. A three- member bench of the apex court comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ch. Ijaz Ahmed, and Justice Ghulam Rabbani Rabbani gave the directives while hearing [...]
LAHORE: Showing their reservations on certain clauses of the 18th Amendment, the Supreme Court Bar Association and Lahore
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 [...]
ISLAMABAD: Law Ministry functionaries are not interested in implementing the Supreme Court’s historic verdict on NRO
ISLAMABAD: Reiterating his earlier stance, President Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), Qazi Anwar, said the parliament does not have the right to appoint judges. Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, Anwar said the parliament should be supreme and the judiciary independent. Thus, the parliament should not tread into the judiciary’s ambit and scope. Comparing the different [...]
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: 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 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: 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 [...]
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 Supreme Court asked the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday to “stop playing hide and seek” about immunity status of President Asif Ali Zardari and take into custody documents relating to the $60 million money laundering case which the government had withdrawn from Swiss courts. “For how long will this hide and seek [...]
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari today approved a 30 per cent increase in the salary and allowances of judges of the apex
ISLAMABAD: The government has given eight days to the Federal Investigation Agency to submit a first report on alleged corruption in Pakistan Steel Mills and asked it to identify the people who had caused immense losses to the country’s largest industrial unit. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting held on Tuesday in pursuance [...]
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary has ordered the IGPs, home secretaries, Advocates General of all the four provinces
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court forwarded a complaint of bribe-taking against former Attorney-General Latif Khosa to the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) on Friday. A former official of the National Highway Authority had filed a complaint alleging that Latif Khosa had received three million rupees from him for securing a court decision in his favour but that [...]
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: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry was startled to learn that NAB had a legal claim on 40 per cent share in the
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