By Muhammad Saleh Zaafir in The News, Dec 26, 2023ISLAMABAD: PMLN Quaid and former prime minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif’s nomination papers for Lahore and Mansehra constituencies would be scrutinized on Tuesday (today). The party has tasked its lawyer wing’s stalwarts with defending the nomination papers. Well-placed sources told The News on Monday that the PTI and PPP lawyers had worked out their strategies to challenge the nomination papers with reference to the Supreme Court’s verdict…
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Editorial in Pakistan Today, Dec 01, 2023The proposal to set up Performance Monitoring Units in loss-making electricity distribution companies under a serving brigadier, with representatives from the FIA and the Intelligence Bureau is debatable. The caretaker government may have the legal right to take a decision on this proposal, but it should not. The purpose of caretaker governments are twofold; one, to conduct elections; two, to keep the motor of government chugging away in the…
By Zebunnisa Burki in The News, August 30, 2023KARACHI: Imran Khan’s Toshakhana sentence suspension by the Islamabad High Court on Tuesday does not translate into suspension of his disqualification, say legal experts. Posting on X (former Twitter), lawyer Reema Omer says that “If a court suspends the sentence but conviction remains, disqualification remains too.” Omer cites case law (2019 SCMR 382) to make her point, quoting: ““Suspension of sentence would have no consequence on conviction…
report in The Express Tribune, Aug 20, 2023LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has decided to investigate the claims made by party’s counsel Sher Afzal Khan Marwat regarding the existence of individuals within the party’s core committee and legal team who are “jeopardising his security by leaking sensitive party information to adversaries”. “…the traitors in the Khan legal team and the PTI Core Committee have put my life in danger. The presence of the traitors in the…
report in The Daily Morning, Aug 10, 2023A group of monks has pointed out to the Parliamentary Sectoral Oversight Committee on An Open and Accountable Government, the need to take legal measures to act on alleged “hate speech” brewing against monks, the latter with a view to fulfilling various needs of non-religious organisations. The said Committee met in the Parliament recently under the Chairmanship of Jagath Kumara Sumithraarachchi. The monks in question presented their views…