Tag: Supreme Court of Pakistan
SC orders completion of Orange Line train project by 20th May
News Desk | The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday, 19th April, Punjab Government to finish work on Orange Line Metro Train project till May 20th. A...
Provision of speedy justice: CJP unimpressed with parliament’s role
News Analysis | The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (CJP) Asif Saeed Khan Khosa has expressed disappointment over the role of the...
Musharraf to lose his right to defend if fails to appear...
News Desk | The Supreme Court of Pakistan said on Monday that if former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf case doesn’t appear in court on...
Nawaz out for six weeks to get medical treatment
News Desk | The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday, 26th March gave former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif bail for six weeks to obtain medical...
Nawaz Sharif insists on going to London, Fawad Chaudhry
News Analysis | Federal Minister for Information Mr. Fawad Chaudhry has once again revealed that former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif wants to go to London...
Supreme Court asks why Musharraf case is on standstill
News Desk | The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday 7th March carried out the hearing of treason case under Article 6 of the constitution against...
Imprisoned Nawaz moves SC against IHC decision
News Desk | Incarcerated former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday moved the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) against the Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) decision...
NBP avoids banking sector woes, achieves highest revenue
News Desk | In the last few years, the banking sector in Pakistan has been both, beset by various issues such as political instability and...
Memogate: Is the case against Hussain Haqqani over?
News Analysis | The Supreme Court of Pakistan has finally wrapped up Memogate scandal and said that state could try Hussain Haqqani under article 6...
The dharna Judgment – Our new judicial discourse?
Hassan Aslam Shad | Last week, the Supreme Court of Pakistan penned a new (and possibly unfinished) chapter in the judicial history of Pakistan. It...
Is Supreme Court’s Faizabad sit-in Judgement an example of rigid Textualism?
News Analysis | In the latest development, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has directed the government, law enforcers, intelligence agencies and the army's media wing...
Twitter lauds Chief Justice Khosa in Khadija Siddiqui’s stabbing case
News Desk | The social mediascape of Pakistan immensely appreciated the apex court's decision on Khadija Siddiqui stabbing case. The law student Khadija Siddiqui had...
Celebrating without cause? – Saad Rasool
Saad Rasool | Earlier in the week, as reported, the honorable Supreme Court of Pakistan referred the JIT Report (regarding money laundering by Asif Zardari...
The U-Turn Hype: Anti-PTI Media twisting words yet again?
News Analysis | Prime Minister Imran Khan is once again in the news for a statement attributed to him. According to some media outlets he...
TLP & Islamic principles: Some major contradictions – Khawaja Akbar
Khawaja Akbar | The outbreak of violent protests, after the Supreme Court of Pakistan acquitted Aasiya Noreen in the blasphemy case, is another example of...
Pay Rs 1-per-litre tax or exit the industry, CJP tells Bottled...
News Analysis | The Supreme Court of Pakistan has directed all provinces to impose Rs 1-per-litre tax on companies selling bottled water and constituted a...
Will NAB bow down to the opposition’s mounting pressure?
News Analysis | The Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice, headed by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senator Javed Abbasi, has called the National Accountability...
Jemima Goldsmith expresses diappointment over Asia Bibi case
News Desk | Jemima Goldsmith, the former wife of Prime Minister Imran Khan slammed the government of Pakistan Tehreek-I-Insaf for surrendering to the protestors demand...
Asia Bibi case verdict, fallacious arguments and our national mindset
Zain Ullah Khattak | Supreme Court of Pakistan, a leading judicial body of Pakistan, announces Asia Bibi case in Islamabad; as soon as declaration has...
“Don’t drag army into everything,” warns DG ISPR
News Desk | The Director-General (DG) of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor made it clear on Friday that Pakistan Army had nothing...
Who is Khadim Hussain Rizvi?
News Analysis | Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), a religious political party, has once again disrupted the peace in urban centers of Pakistan. After the Supreme Court...
National Bank aims to fight water shortage in Pakistan
News Desk | President National Bank of Pakistan (NBP), Mr. Tariq Jamali, met Prime Minister Imran Khan to hand over a cheque of Rs. 19.5...
Asia Bibi case: A test for the top court
News Analysis | The Supreme Court of Pakistan is all set to hear an appeal of blasphemy convict Asia Bibi on Oct 8. The SC...
Pakpattan Incident: SC rejects a ‘biased’ report, grills IG Kaleem Imam
News Analysis | The Supreme Court of Pakistan has completely rejected a report submitted by the former Inspector General Punjab Police Kaleem Imam regarding the...
Law Minister refuses to comment on High Treason case against Pervez...
News Analysis | Farogh Naseem, Minister for Law and Justice, has refused to comment on the case of former military dictator Pervez Musharraf. Mr. Naseem...
Hafiz Saeed free to do charity work
News Analysis | On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of Pakistan allowed the leader of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Hafiz Saeed, to continue charity work and public welfare with...
The civil-military argument – Saad Rasool
Saad Rasool | Throughout our history, Pakistan has been consumed by (an ongoing) debate about civil-military imbalance. This argument stands on two assertions, one factual...
Shahbaz Sharif demands Parliamentary committee probe into election rigging
News Analysis | In a press briefing after meeting his elder brother Nawaz Sharif, the former Chief Minister of Punjab and current leader of the...
An Artist killed in Lahore under the pretexts of Blasphemy, Social...
News Analysis | Almost two weeks ago, an artist from Sindh came to Lahore for an art show. The artist, who was identified as Qutub...
Who & who are fighting Imran Khan?
Haider Raza Mehdi | Just look at the enemies surrounding Imran, the Supreme Court, NAB and the Army! Nawaz Sharif, Asif Zardari, Asfandyar Wali, Achakzai, Fazal,...
Police book 50 PML-N supporters as they ransack anti-narcotics court
News Analysis | 50 people, including the son of PML-N leader Hanif Abbasi and a former MPA, were booked by Rawalpindi police for rioting and...
Boxer Amir Khan pledges to make donations for construction of dams
News Desk | Pakistani-British boxer Amir Khan has announced to donate an amount of £10,997 to the funds for the construction of Diamer-Basha and Mohmand...
Supreme Court expresses grave concerns over petroleum price hike
News Analysis | The Supreme Court of Pakistan has shown grave concerns over the interim government’s decision to increase the prices of the petroleum products...
“I have no political agenda,” says CJP Nisar
News Analysis | The Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP), Saqib Nisar has remarked on Monday that he has nothing to do with politics. He is...
Who wants to blow up NAB headquarters for doing its job:...
News Analysis | The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal says that the watchdog is receiving threats that its headquarters would be...
SC dismisses petition seeking Sheikh Rashid’s disqualification
News Analysis | The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday announced its verdict in favor of Awami Muslim League leader Sheikh Ahmed Rashid in the misdeclaration of...