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ECP rejects plea for re-conduct of PTI intra-party polls

by Javid ur Rahman in The Nation, Dec 9, 2023ISLAMABAD – The top election body has rejected Akbar S. Babar’s appeal for the re-conduct of the recently conducted intra-party elections of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI). The ECP’s five-member bench led by Chief Election Commissioner Si­kandar Sultan Raja announced this decision after hearing the case. The bench heard a series of peti­tions filed by PTI founding members Akbar S. Babar, Tahir Nawaz, Noreen Farooq, and others,…

IHC to take up Imran’s appeal today

report in The Express Tribune, Nov 20, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court will take up PTI chairman and deposed premier Imran Khan’s intra-court appeal on Monday (today) against a single-judge bench’s decision that had approved his jail trial in the cipher case and the appointment of the judge for the special court of the Official Secrets Act. An IHC division bench, comprising Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb and Justice Saman Rafat Imtiaz, will hear the matter.…

Govt set to appeal verdict in NAB tweaks case

by Nasir Iqbal in Dawn, October 13th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The federal government has, in the wake of top judiciary’s verdict upholding the Practice and Procedure Act 2023, decided to challenge the Supreme Court’s Sept 15 ruling in which it had declared as illegal the amended National Accountability Ordinance (NAO). Talking to Dawn, Attor­ney General for Pakistan (AGP) Mansoor Usman Awan said the appeal is likely to be moved early next week. Permission may also be sought…

Catholic Bishops appeal to President for foreign secret service reports on Easter attack

report in Daily FT, Oct 10, 2023The Catholic Bishops’ Conference in Sri Lanka (CBCS) has written to President Ranil Wickremesinghe requesting copies of reports compiled by international law enforcement and secret service agencies including those from the US, UK, India, China, Australia and Pakistan on the Easter Sunday attack. In a letter dated 6 October, the CBCS observed that President Wickremesinghe had discussed these reports in a recent interview with the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.…

24-hour prohibitory order in Dharan; Mayor’s appeal for social harmony

report on Nepalnews.com, Aug 26m 2023The District Administration Office, Sunsari has issued a 24-hour prohibitory order in view of public health emergency and sensitivity of peace and security and communal issues in Dharan Sub-Metropolitan City. The order is effective from Friday midnight to Saturday midnight, according to Chief District Officer, Humkala Pande. She informed that the prohibitory order was enforced in the wake of announcement of ‘public health emergency’ in all 20 wards of Dharan…

Cancellation of Jamaat’s registration: Party given 2 months to prepare appeal

report in Dhaka Tribune Desk, January 31, 2023 at 1:56 PMThe Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has given Jamaat-e-Islami two months to prepare the summary of the appeal against a verdict of the High Court that scrapped its registration as a political party. The three member appellate bench headed by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the order on Tuesday. Barrister Tanya Amir, who appeared in representing the writ petitioner, said: “We have taken…