ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday once again referred a set of intra-court appeals (ICAs) back to the three-judge committee against an Oct 23 ruling, which had deemed the trials of civilians in military courts ‘illegal’. The committee on formation of benches is now expected to form a larger bench to hear the case, as demanded by the counsel of different …
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has accepted another plea against the PTI’s intra-party elections, sources told on Wednesday. The electoral watchdog seems to be meting out ‘special treatment’ to the party, as it has been issued a notice over alleged irregularities in intra-party polls, conducted on the ECP orders on March 3. The party had filed documents related to its intra-party …
ISLAMABAD: A day after Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb called for broadening the tax net and expressed concerns over the delay in the cases of tax recoveries, the government on Wednesday tabled a bill in the National Assembly to expedite the process of the recovery of over Rs2 trillion held up in litigation before the Appellate Tribunal Inland Revenue (ATIR). The bill, titled …
KARACHI: Announcing 150 buses for the metropolis, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday directed the federal authorities to remove all bottlenecks in the revival of the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) and assured the Sindh government to resolve all of its financial and development related issues pending with the federal governments. The prime minister, who arrived in the provincial metropolis on …
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday expressed displeasure at the absence of the investigation officer during the hearing on the petition seeking post-arrest bail for former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, in a £190 million corruption case. The IHC division bench, comprising Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, resumed hearing on the …
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), in collaboration with five other opposition parties, will launch a mass protest movement against what it calls “worst-ever rigging” in the general elections and subsequent by-polls, on Friday (tomorrow). On Wednesday, an online meeting of PTI Punjab office-bearers, MNAs, MPAs and ticket-holders was held to discuss the issue and chalk out a plan for Friday’s …
KARACHI: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday arrived in Karachi on a day-long visit, where he is expected to hold meetings with the Sindh chief minister and governor, state-run Radio Pakistan reported. Upon his arrival at the Karachi airport, Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori and Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah welcomed PM Shehbaz. The prime minister visited Mazar-i-Quaid, where he laid a floral …
ISLAMABAD: The administration of Islamabad High Court (IHC) has initiated the process to send back District and Sessions Judge Abul Hasnat Mohammad Zulqarnain to his parent department, the Lahore High Court (LHC), over alleged misconduct. Judge Zulqarnain convicted former prime minister Imran Khan and PTI leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi in the cipher case and sentenced them to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment each, …
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to the advocate general of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa seeking his response to a petition of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz against the recent authorisation of expenditure by the provincial government for a month. Justice Ijaz Anwar and Justice Shahid Khan held a preliminary hearing into the joint petition of two PML-N …
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday took notice of the “willful” delay in tax cases and ordered suspension of the commissioner inland revenue Islamabad and other relevant officials. He also asked for initiating an inquiry against the officials, said the media wing of Prime Minister Office in a press release. Soon after assuming the office, the prime minister had …