report in The Nation, Dec 30, 2023ISLAMABAD The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday decided to move the Peshawar High Court against its decision on PTI’s election symbol ‘bat’. The electoral watchdog will approach the division bench of the Peshawar High Court against the single bench ruling. It was decided at an important meeting of ECP held here following the PHC ruling. It is to be mentioned here that the PHC on Tuesday last…
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by Ikram Junaidi | Mansoor Malik | Waseem Ahmad Shah in Dawn, Dec 26th, 2023PESHAWAR/LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: The PTI is expected to approach the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday (today) in a bid to retain the ‘bat’ as the party’s symbol for the upcoming elections. “It is our legitimate right to contest the upcoming general election with the symbol of bat,” party spokesperson Raoof Hasan told Dawn, referring to the Election Commission of Pakistan’s Dec 22…
report in Daily Times, Dec 24, 2023The Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Saturday expressed disapproval of the Supreme Court ruling in the cipher case giving relief to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan. The comments from the senior party leaders came following the ex-PTI chairman’s bail a day earlier. During a media talk in Lahore, senior PML-N leader Malik Ahmad Khan wondered how Imran Khan could be spared for his…
By Faizan Bangash in The News, December 20, 2023LAHORE: Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said the Lahore High Court and Supreme Court are the crime scenes of the murder of Quaid-e-Awam Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. The PPP leader said it was perpetrated by late Gen Ziaul Haq and the coterie of judges of the Lahore High Court, the Supreme Court along with lawyers, politicians and bureaucrats who acted as facilitators. Bilawal was addressing a…
by Malik Asad in Dawn, December 14th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Imran Khan wants Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Aamer Farooq to “recuse himself” from all benches hearing cases against him, expressing “deep loss of faith” in his court. Mr Khan filed an application seeking transfer of cases before the IHC through his counsel Sardar Latif Khan Khosa. According to the petition, Justice Farooq hears almost all cases against him. It said Justice Farooq…
report in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 5, 2023The Kathmandu District Court on Monday issued arrest warrants against senior leaders of the Communist Party of Nepal led by Netra Bikram Chand ‘Biplav’. The court issued the arrest notice against the party chief Chand, standing committee member Khadga Bahadur Bishwakarma ‘Prakanda’, Kathmandu Valley Bureau in-charge Maila Lama ‘Prajwal’, and Raju Karki, chair of the All Nepal Peasants’ Federation Revolutionary. The court has asked them to be present…
Report in Dawn, December 3rd, 2023ISLAMABAD: The PTI on Saturday received a sharp criticism from its opponents over its intra-party elections as a party dissident and one of the founding members, Akbar S. Babar, announced that he would challenge the whole process in a court of law. The leaders of the country’s mainstream parties, including the PML-N and PPP, also put question mark on the legitimacy of the intra-party elections conducted by the PTI on…
by Wajih Ahmad Sheikh in Dawn, Nov 26th, 2023LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Saturday issued non-bailable arrest warrants for former information minister and senior PML-N leader Marriyum Aurangzeb in a terror case registered against her last year. Neither Ms Aurangzeb nor her lawyer appeared before the court as Judge Abher Gul Khan resumed the hearing of the case. At the previous hearing, the judge had issued bailable arrest warrants for Ms Aurangzeb and ex-MNA Javed…
by Wajih Ahmad Sheikh | Malik Asad in Dawn, November 24th, 2023ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Proceedings in the cipher case recommenced in the open court on Thursday as the judge of Special Court (Official Secrets Act) issued summons for appearance of former prime minister Imran Khan and ex-foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi at the Federal Judicial Complex (FJC) on Nov 28. It would be the first appearance of Mr Khan in an open court since his detention following…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, November 24, 2023The Supreme Court on Thursday sought clarifications from the President’s Office and the government over their moves to provide amnesty to three convicts of the Tikapur carnage from 2015. Responding to a writ petition by Sharada Kadayat Bohara, wife to police inspector Keshav Bohara who was killed in the incident, and Mandhara Devi Bista, wife to another victim, a single bench of Justice Prakash Dhungana sought the reasons…
Report in Dawn, November 22nd, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court decided on Tuesday to conduct regular hearing of the appeals, filed by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, against his conviction in two corruption references. An IHC division bench comprising Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb had, on October 24, revived Mr Sharif’s appeals in the Avenfield and Al-Azizia references. Justice Farooq noted that since the hearing may continue for a longer period,…