Category: ENGLISH

Despite Rs4 billion being spent on the Punjab government’s Saaf Pani project, not a single drop of clean water has been made available to the citizens, Punjab Chief Secretary Zahid Saeed informed the Supreme Court on Sunday. A two-member bench of the SC, headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, was hearing the suo motu case regarding alleged irregularities in appointments in the Punjab Saaf Pani Company (PSPC) at its Lahore Registry. A day earlier, the company’s CEO had told the court that Rs300 million had been spent on the services…

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1 The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a petition against the appointment of Justice Qazi Faez Isa as chief justice of the Balochistan High Court (BHC) and his elevation to the apex court. The petition, filed by Advocate Riaz Hanif Rahi, had argued that there exists no provision in the Constitution for direct appointment of the chief justice of a province and the guidance provided in Articles 196 and 200 of the Constitution was not followed (in Justice Isa’s case). The complainant informed the court that according to Article 193…

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Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Saturday called for “political decisions to be taken in polling booths, not in courts” as he took another dig at PML-N’s rivals for getting the party’s former president Nawaz Sharif disqualified and ousted from the PM office. The PM’s remarks come in the wake of his recent meeting with Chief Justice (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar — a rendezvous that had raised many eyebrows in political circles. The meeting, and Justice Nisar’s subsequent referring of the PM as a supplicant, had also irked Sharif, who later publicly…

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The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday fixed separate contempt of court petitions against former premier Nawaz Sharif, PTI Chairman Imran Khan and former chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry for hearing on April 4. Senior lawyer Naseer Ahmed Kayani has filed a petition against Imran Khan, accusing him of committing contempt of court by using derogatory language against former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. Riaz Hanif Rahi — the lawyer who has challenged the appointment of Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court — has filed two separate contempt of court petitions against…

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A visibly emotional Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel laureate in history, couldn’t contain her disbelief upon finally returning home after more than five years away following a Taliban attack in Swat in 2012. “I have dreamed of returning to Pakistan for the past five years,” said a teary Yousafzai in a homecoming speech on Thursday at a function at Prime Minister House in Islamabad. A car carrying Malala Yousafza and her father Ziauddin Yousafzai leaves for Prime Minister House ahead of a meeting with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in…

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Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor on Wednesday said that if a ‘Bajwa doctrine’ exists its scope is limited just to the security aspect in Pakistan. At a press conference in Rawalpindi, the DG ISPR was asked about the doctrine that bears the incumbent army chief’s name and whose existence was purportedly confirmed in the chief’s recent meeting with some media personnel. “When the media interaction took place, things were lumped together and made a part of the Bajwa doctrine,” said Maj Gen Ghafoor, who had mentioned the said…

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ISLAMABAD: Police teams have left for different cities and towns of Punjab on an apparently impossible mission to arrest Tehreek-i-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah leaders and activists nominated in separate cases in connection with the Faizabad sit-in of last year. As many as 28 cases have been registered against Khadim Hussain Rizvi and 480 other leaders and activists of the religious group in the police stations of Industrial Area, Kural, Khanna and Aabara in Islamabad. The trial courts, including the anti-terrorism court of Islamabad, have issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of the…

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The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday removed Farooq Sattar as the convener of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), approving the petitions filed by a rival faction of his party against his election to the post. A five-member bench headed by the chief election commissioner also rejected Sattar’s application challenging the commission’s jurisdictionto hear petitions involving internal matters of the party. Accepting the petitions filed by MQM-Bahadurabad — the faction rival to Sattar-led PIB group — leaders Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and Kanwar Naveed Jameel, the ECP nullified the intra-party elections held…

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The Supreme Court on Monday asked senior lawyers to help decide whether the lawyer’s licence of PML-N loyalist Nehal Hashmi should be cancelled over his fresh outburst against the judiciary. Hashmi, a former PML-N senator, was issued a second contempt of court notice by the SC and a first information report (FIR) was registered against him on court orders for his speech on February 28 targeting the judiciary. Hashmi made the speech after his release from Adiala Jail following a one-month prison sentence for contempt of court. At the outset of…

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Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal appeared before the Supreme Court on Monday for the hearing of a suo motu case regarding overseas Pakistanis being charged an extra amount as an issuance fee for Pakistan Origin Cards (POC). “Are you angry at coming to the Supreme Court?” Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar asked the minister who responded in the negative. Iqbal then put forward his own request for the court to look into the delay in construction of a school in Narowal on the orders of a high court judge. The CJP…

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Chairman Kashmir Council EU Mr Ali Raza Syed has said, there are many challenges in the context of a successful move on Kashmir issue in Europe and for that there is need of an effective strategy on the issue. While talking to media persons at Press Club Mirpure, Azad Kashmir, Ali Raza Syed added, We do our best to realize the Europeans about real facts on Kashmir dispute. Chairman Kashmir Council EU visited the Press Club in order to congratulate the newly elected office bearers of the club. New President…

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Brussels, Belgium / Mirpure, AJK (PR, 25 March 2018) Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan met Chairman Kashmir Council Europe (EU), Mr Ali Raza Syed at his residence in Mirpure, Azad Kashmir. During the meeting, struggle on Kashmir in Europe, specially efforts rendered by Kashmir Council EU and as well as situation in Indian Held Kashmir came under discussion. Earlier, the Prime Minister was warmly welcomed on his arrival at the residence of Mr Ali Raza Syed. On the occasion, both sides expressed serious concerns over the severe…

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