Report in Pakistan Today, Dec 29, 2023RAWALPINDI: The court of a judicial magistrate on Thursday rejected the police request for a 30-day physical remand of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi and sent him to jail on Judicial remand in 12 cases registered against him following May 9 riots. Qureshi was presented before Duty Magistrate Syed Jahangir Ali’s court in the GHQ attack case under strict security. At the outset of the hearing,…
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by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, December 7th, 2023ISLAMABAD: A four-member bench of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will be going to Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail to charge-sheet PTI’s founding chairman Imran Khan and former central leader of the party Fawad Chaudhry in contempt cases on Dec 13. Announcing its verdict on Nov 30, an ECP bench headed by member from Sindh Nisar Ahmed Durrani had referred to the Oct 11 order requiring Mr Khan’s…
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.…
By Khalid Iqbal in The News, Nov 7, 2023ISLAMABAD. The Special Court established under Official Secrets Act will hear Cipher case on Tuesday (today). The list of the lawyers, who will appear on behalf of former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, has been provided to the court. The list was filed by Suleman Safdar, counsel for the PTI chairman, through advocate Khalid Yousuf. According to the list, eight lawyers — Suleman…
report in The Express Tribune, Oct 16, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) would announce its reserved ruling on Monday (today) on a petition of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan against the hearing of the cypher case inside jail premises, according to the cause list issued by the court registrar on Sunday. As per the cause list, Chief Justice Aamer Farooq would also hear Imran’s post-arrest bail application. The court had also issued…
By Awais Yousafzai in The News, October 15, 2023ISLAMABAD: The three-time prime minister of Pakistan, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, will return to Pakistan on October 21 after four years of self-exile in London with the status of a convicted criminal as he has been sentenced in two graft cases. The former premier will have to get the sentences awarded to him in two National Accountability Bureau (NAB) cases suspended upon his return to the country by…
report in Dawn, September 28th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: The police claimed to have repulsed terrorist attacks on two police stations and district jail in Lakki Marwat city on Tuesday night. An official said a police station, a police post and the district jail building came under simultaneous attacks. He said the assailants used light and heavy weapons in a bid to breach police installations and the prison. “Policemen deployed there were fully alert as they had…
REPORT IN The Daily Star, Sept 11, 2023The government is set to extend the suspension of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s jail sentence by six more months. “Her [Khaleda’s] family has applied to the home ministry to extend the suspension of her jail sentence. I have given my opinion on the application for extending the suspension of her jail sentence by six months on previous conditions. “I sent back the relevant file two days ago along…
by Qaiser Shirazi in The Express Tribune, Sept 5th, 2023.An additional district and sessions court of Rawalpindi awarded death penalty to four accused in a blasphemy case filed by the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) Cyber Crime Wing (CCW). A fifth accused was sentenced to seven years in jail by the court. Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) Ahsan Mahmood Malik passed the judgment in two separate cases. He said in his ruling that blasphemy against…
Agency report, August 3, 2023DHAKA: Bangladesh’s exiled opposition leader was sentenced in absentia to nine years jail for corruption on Wednesday, lawyers said, triggering protests from hundreds of supporters who called the trial politically motivated. Tarique Rahman, 55, acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and son of ex-prime minister Khaleda Zia, was handed the nine-year sentence and his wife, Zubaida Rahman, was given three years, Anti-Corruption Commission lawyer Khushid Alam Khan told AFP.…
By Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, June 17, 2023The Kathmandu District Court on Friday sent 16 people including former ministers Top Bahadur Rayamajhi and Bal Krishna Khand to jail after a hearing in a fake Bhutanese refugee scam. A single bench of judge Prem Prasad Neupane passed the order after the end of a detention hearing that continued for around two weeks. Deepak Dahal, information officer at the Kathmandu District Court, told the…