by Nasir Iqbal in Dawn, November 25th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Senior PPP leader Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan on Monday moved an in-chamber appeal challenging the Supreme Court registrar’s decision not to entertain his petition highlighting what it called unlawful practice of enforced disappearances of citizens. The SC registrar office had, on Nov 8, returned the petition terming not entertainable, as Mr Ahsan didn’t point out “as to what questions of public importance” regarding the enforcement of fundamental rights…
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report in The Express Tribune, Sept 21, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court Registrar Office has returned a petition challenging the trials of civilians in the military courts after raising objections to it. Petitioner Col (retd) Inamur Rahim had requested the apex court to declare the trials held during the tenure of the PTI chairman null and void. The registrar office objected that the petitioner had not pointed out what questions of public importance in the case…
By Sohail Khan in The News, Sept 17, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday challenged the objections of the Supreme Court Registrar on its petition for declaring the Council of Common Interests (CCI) decision of August 5 about census as illegal and void ab initio. PTI Secretary General Umar Ayub filed an appeal in the apex court under Order V Rule 3 of the Supreme Court Rules 1980 against the September 14 order of the…
Report in Dawn, Sept 15th, 2023ISLAMABAD: In a significant setback for the PTI, the Supreme Court on Thursday returned its petition seeking nationwide elections in the country within 90 days with objections. The petition also requested the apex court to order the ECP to issue a schedule accordingly, besides the governors of all four provinces be directed to announce the date of elections within 90 days of the dissolution of the respective assemblies, or in…
By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, June 12, 2023A writ petition demanding prosecution of the supreme commander of the disbanded Maoist ‘People’s Liberation Army’, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who currently is the prime minister, and the chief of the insurgency-era ‘people’s government’, Baburam Bhattarai, who is also a former prime minister, has been registered at the Supreme Court. The court administration registered the petition on Sunday following a ruling by a single bench of Justice…
by Ishaq Tanoli in Dawn, Mar 7th, 2023KARACHI: The Federal Shariat Court on Monday dismissed a petition challenging the Sindh Child Marriages Restraint Act of 2013, saying that the law was not against the injunctions of Islam. It observed that the legislature’s move to fix a minimum age for marriage was in accordance with injunctions of Islam as laid down in the Holy Quran and Sunnah. The two-judge bench, comprising acting Chief Justice Dr Syed…
By Safrah Fazal in The Morning, Jan 5, 2023The public petition launched by the Electricity Consumers’ Association, seeking the signatures of 6.9 million electricity consumers in opposition to the proposedelectricity tariff increase, had secured nearly 30,000 signatures as of last morning (4). The association collected signatures from locals in the Giriulla area yesterday, and hopes to move to Divulapitiya today (5), Meerigama and Maharagama on 7January, and to Negombo on 8 January. Speaking to The…
by Haroon Rashid Siddiqi in The Express Tribune, Dec 13th, 2022.The writer is a retired professional based in Canada.Imran Khan was a flamboyant maverick in his hey days. Judging him now on the touchstone of moral turpitude is worse than a sin. The Islamabad High Court – serving a pre-admission notice on a petition against Imran Khan for not declaring/disclosing the existence of his daughter – is beyond an expression of reproval. Our societal norms…