by Malik Asad in Dawn, December 28th, 2023There’s been a lot of “bat blood” between the PTI and the Election Commission over the past few days, and the controversy over the party’s election symbol seems all set to land in the Supreme Court. However, as the Election Commission prepares to challenge the Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) decision to restore PTI’s symbol, experts are divided on whether the top court will entertain the ECP’s petition to…
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report in The Island, Sept 17, 2023President Ranil Wickremesinghe has appointed a committee led by a retired Supreme Court judge to investigate allegations by Britain’s “Channel-4” related to the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks. The committee will be chaired by retired Supreme Court Justice S.I. Imam, the President’s Media Division said on Friday. The other members are Retired Air Force Commander ACM, Jayalath Weerakkody and Harsha A.J. Soza PC. Releasing the video earlier this month, ‘Channel…
By Asim Yasin in The News, Sept 16, 2023ISLAMABAD: Around 2,000 NAB cases, including those at the reference, complaint verification, inquiry, and investigation level, are expected to be restored after the Supreme Court’s verdict in the NAB law amendments case on Friday. Cases against former president Asif Ali Zardari and six former prime ministers, including Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Shaukat Aziz, Yusuf Raza Gilani, Raja Pervez Ashraf, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Shehbaz Sharif, are expected to…
By Sohail Khan in The News, Sept 16, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday restored corruption cases against public office holders after striking down some of the amendments made to the National Accountability Ordinance (NAO) 1999 by the previous coalition government, declaring it against the rights pertaining to public interest enshrined in the Constitution. A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial and comprising Justice Ijazul Ahsen and Justice…
by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, July 28, 2023The Supreme Court has removed Uddhav Thapa from the post of chief minister of Koshi Province after concluding that the formation of the Nepali Congress-led provincial government was unconstitutional. A full bench of justices Ishwar Prasad Khatiwada, Ananda Mohan Bhattarai and Til Prasad Shrestha has also directed the chief of the Koshi Province and Speaker of the provincial assembly to appoint a chief minister of a…
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 Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Mar 8, 2023Two separate writ petitions have been filed against Prime Minister and CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal at the Supreme Court asking for criminal investigation against him over insurgency-era atrocities. Advocate and conflict victim Gyanendra Aran and Kalyan Budhathoki, another victim, registered a pair of petitions against Dahal on Tuesday. They took exception to the Maoist chair taking responsibility for the deaths of 5,000 of…
Report in Dawn, March 4th, 2023ISLAMABAD: A group of people armed with weapons, axes and batons attacked and injured a police team at the Supreme Court Housing Society, police said on Friday. The injured were identified as station house officer (SHO) Shahzad Town Sub-inspector Mohammad Azeem, Assistant Sub-inspector Zafar Iqbal and constable Ghulam Mustafa. Over the incident, a case was registered at the Shahzad Town police station against 16 people, including three women. According to…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, March 4,The Supreme Court on Friday ordered its administration to register two writ petitions against CPN (Maoist Centre) chair and prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal for claiming responsibility of 5,000 insurgency-era deaths three years ago. Hearing a case filed by two advocates against the decision of the Supreme Court administration to reject their petitions, a division bench of justices Ishwor Prasad Khatiwada and Hari Prasad Phuyal ordered the court administration…
by M Alam Brohi in Daily Times, Nov 29, 2022The author was a member of the Foreign Service of Pakistan With the prolonged sit-in of PTI in Islamabad in 2016; the revelations of Panama Leaks involving Mian Nawaz Sharif and his family in corruption; his disqualification by the Supreme Court in 2017; the PTI victory in the general elections of 2018; the refusal of mainstream political parties including PML-N, PPP and JUI to concede defeat…