QUETTA: Justice Hashim Khan Kakar on Saturday took oath as the Balochistan High Court (BHC) chief justice. Balochistan Governor Malik Abdul Wali Khan Kakar administered the oath to the new chief justice in a ceremony held at the Governor House. Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti, high court judges, provincial ministers, MPAs, advocate general and senior lawyers attended the ceremony. Justice …
ISLAMABAD: Iran’s Ambassador Dr Reza Amiri Moghaddam met Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Saturday to discuss arrangements for the Iranian president’s upcoming visit to Pakistan. The two officials deliberated upon the details of President Ebrahim Raisi’s visit. The Iranian ambassador congratulated Mr Naqvi on assuming the charge of interior minister and appreciated his performance as caretaker chief minister of Punjab. …
QUETTA: JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman once again “rejected” the February 8 general elections, vowing that his party will not let the existing government function as it was “fake” and a product of rigged polls. Addressing a public meeting at the Taj Lala Stadium in Pishin on Saturday, he said: “Our anti-government movement will spread across the country, and nobody …
ISLAMABAD: The incarcerated founding chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan, wrote a letter to Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa on Saturday and drew his attention to seven key issues that he felt needed urgent intervention by the top court and the top judge to safeguard the rule of law and maintain the supremacy of the …
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has authorised the deployment of civil armed forces and the Pakistan Army for the provision of general security to assist the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in the peaceful conduct of the April 21 by-elections, it emerged on Saturday. The poll campaign for by-elections in around two dozen National and provincial assembly constituencies came to a close on …
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday said that the economic and cultural relationships between Pakistan and China were rapidly growing due to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). In a message on global observance of the Chinese language as one of the largest dialects for communication, he said that a “sufficient number of Pakistanis” were learning the Chinese language, …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan rejected what it said was the “political use of export controls” after the United States imposed sanctions on four entities for their alleged involvement in supplying “missile-applicable items” to Pakistan’s ballistic missile programme, the Foreign Office (FO) said on Saturday. The US State Department claimed on Friday evening that the entities — three Chinese and one from Belarus — were …
ISLAMABAD: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday said opposition members were afraid of his sister Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari and father President Asif Ali Zardari. Talking to reporters in the parliament house, he said the opposition resorted to shouting when Aseefa was taking the oath as MNA and Mr Zardari was addressing the joint sitting of the parliament on Thursday. “This shows …
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court administration has sought suggestions from the judges of IHC and subordinate judiciary by April 25 to counter the alleged meddling of intelligence agencies in judicial affairs. Sources in the judicial bureaucracy told Dawn that in compliance with the Supreme Court order passed in the suo motu proceedings initiated on a letter of six IHC judges, the administration …
LAHORE: The Supreme Court has been requested to regulate the discretionary powers of all provincial high courts’ chief justices to curb the alleged misuse of authority in the judiciary. “The outgoing chief justices often misuse their discretionary powers like royalty,” says a petition filed by a lawyer in the wake of alleged dozens of decisions made by Justice Muhammad Ameer …