LHC Chief Justice Malik Shahzad Ahmad Khan constituted eight election tribunals on Wednesday to adjudicate petitions related to Punjab’s polls following a verdict on a writ petition by two PTI-backed candidates Salman Akram Raja and Rao Omar Hashim Khan. The ECP had previously announced its intention to challenge the appointments and filed an appeal in […]
The ministry in its appeal adopted the stance that the Islamabad High Court (IHC) did not have the authority to hear the duo’s appeals in the case adding that the overwhelming evidence of the prosecution was ignored. The cipher case originated from Imran’s public display of a paper during a rally in Islamabad on March […]
Hearing the petitions filed by PTI leaders Salman Akram Raja and Rao Omar Hashim Khan Justice Shahid Karim of the LHC recently ordered the ECP to notify six more election tribunals for Punjab within one week according to a list of judges sent by the LHC chief justice. The judge nullified the notification granting the […]
IHC’s Justice Miangul Hasan Aurangzeb presided over the hearing which dealt with appeals against the sentences imposed in the case alongside objections raised by the registrar’s office. In February this year after a jail trial senior civil judge Qudratullah sentenced former premier Imran and his wife to seven years in jail along with an Rs0.5 […]
This presidential decree allows the appointment of retired judges as election tribunals without the approval of a provincial chief justice. A single-member bench comprising IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq will hear the pleas filed by the PTI’s Shoaib Shaheen, Ali Bukhari, and Amir Mughal and also address the objections raised by the court’s registrar’s office. […]
On Saturday PML-N leader Khawaja Asif moved to the Lahore High Court (LHC). In a bid to seek his release on bail in the case filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). In the plea filed in the LHC, Asif said NAB had arrested him in assets beyond means and money laundering case on December […]
Years of condemnation on social media and chanting against the nonsensical two-finger test (TFT) at the Aurat March has finally given the women of Pakistan something to celebrate. The Lahore High Court’s (LHC’s) Justice Ayesha A Malik on January 4, 2021 passed a 30-page detailed judgment against the TFT. Declaring it an old practice of […]
The Lahore High Court ruled on Monday that the two-finger and hymen tests of rape survivors were “illegal and unconstitutional”. The verdict announced by LHC judge Justice Ayesha A Malik in a petition challenging the virginity tests of rape survivors. The 30-page verdict stated that the testing methods were “unscientific having no medical basis; therefore […]
