Posts Tagged ‘Judiciary’

Saudis come to Musharraf’s rescue* King Abdullah calls on Pakistani leadership to abide by agreement* Any step against former president could affect Pak-Saudi ties, political stability in PakistanDaily Times Monitor LAHORE: The Saudi authorities have formally sent a message to the Pakistani leadership that they want stability in Pakistan, with [...]

War of words and lack of actionIn the national interestMonday, August 31, 2009Kamal SiddiqiThe writer is editor reporting, The NewsThis week was dedicated to political statements and the fact that nothing ever gets done if you leave it to our present band of leaders. When her government was attacked for not being able to ensure the supply of wheat [...]

Chief Minister Punjab and President PML-N Shahbaz Sharif taking Media persons at Raiwind. — APP Shahbaz Sharif will be the chief minister of Punjab once [...]

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A new lawyers’ movement may be needed to address the crisis created for the legal profession in Swat after the Tehreek-e Nifaz-e Shariat-e Muhammadi (TNSM) banned the lawyers from the qazi courts set up under the tutelage of its leader, Sufi Muhammad. He warned the (more...)

In Pakistan it is difficult to determine where to begin and how far to go back to set things right. Such situations call for pragmatism rather than sheer idealism, which is why Justice Chaudhry, the PCO 1 judge, was (more...)

Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry has been restored and that is a most welcome development for all the right reasons in the world. Now the Zardari government should have space to move forward and address other pressing issues. And since the opposition has accepted the government’s decision as befitting, we could go back to a situation of more political [...]

There is much talk of an embattled and defeated man in the Presidency. The chief justice has (more...)

In September last year, I wrote that the heroic nature of the chief justice's courage, and the lawyers' movement that it spawned could only be transformational if it inspired political action that was rooted in the same principles, and blessed with the same righteous spine as the movement itself. Some will mistake the Nawaz League and the Imran [...]

Swat: Civil judges must refrain from coming to the courts. Sufi Muhammad's orderSufi Muhammad urges people to cooperate with Qazi courtsSWAT, Mar 16 (APP): The Chief of Tehrik (more...)

By Ardeshir Cowasjee Sunday, 15 Mar, 2009 ‘The reality is that neither Nawaz nor Zardari can tolerate free judiciary.’ Now, what with the [...]

Unattended issues of SC judgement —Ijaz Hussain If courts are not in a position to refuse cases that are essentially political in character, litigants can certainly help them towards this end. They can do so by refraining from judicial recourse for settlement of their political scoresThe Supreme Court judgement to ban the Sharif (more...)

Nila Gumbad loves Anarkali Shahbaz Sharif's revolutionary style and the pledge to change his name (to what?) unless.... Parda hai parda - Amar Akbar Anthony (1977) Some relevant comments: MalangBaba said: Reconciliation can only happen if both sides are sincere. Sharifs are not sincere. They planned to work for mid-term [...]

EDITORIAL COMMENT | Double TroubleIt's a double whammy in India's neighbourhood: A mutiny in Bangladesh and a judicial coup in Pakistan. Pakistan's supreme court has upheld an order banning opposition leader Nawaz Sharif and his (more...)

Pakistan court bars opposition chief from electionISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's Supreme Court has barred opposition leader Nawaz Sharif from elected office, a move likely to raise political tensions in the country.The decision deepens a rift between Sharif, the country's most popular politician, and the pro-Western government just as it struggles [...]

Related articles: Aitzaz Ahsan, PPP and Long March: A critical perspective – by Abbas Ather You too Aitzaz Ahsan, the leader of the legal community? Pakistan’s left tilts towards right. Partners in crime? PPP suspends Ch Aitzaz as member CEC LAHORE—Jehangir Badar, Secretary General Pakistan Peoples Party told while talking to [...]

Is Ansar Abbasi an investigative journalist? Or a police tout?Contempt of court based on an unsubstantiated statement attributed to Hazrat Nanno Goraya? (more...)

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Nawaz Sharif says good-bye to Long March? Friday, February 13, 2009 Lawyers didn’t consult us on sit-in: Nawaz By our correspondent LAHORE: PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif on Thursday said the federal government did not take the PML-N into confidence before making any decision in tackling the Mumbai issue. He was talking to reporters after [...]

Finally, the notorious yellow journalist Ansar Abbasi summoned in a court of law. News against judge: LHC admits contempt plea for regular hearing Staff Report LAHORE: Justice Mian Najamuz Zaman of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday admitted for regular hearing a petition seeking contempt proceedings against a reporter and chief [...]

It seems that lawyers have smelt that the ISI's new poodle Imran Khan might try to use the Long March to promote his pro-Taliban and anti-democracy agenda... Imran blames lawyers for not consulting politicians Updated at: 0200 PST, Friday, February 13, 2009 LAHORE: Chairman Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf [...]

Swat inferno and militant ideology Wednesday, 11 Feb, 2009 By Mushfiq MurshedTHE writ of the state in Swat has been demolished. When Operation Rah-i-Haq was launched by the Pakistan Army in 2007, the militants controlled only 25 per cent of the area. (more...)

Investigative journalist or police tout? From Nanno Goraya to Ansar AbbasiLHC judge accused of close links to underworld?Tuesday, February 10, 2009By Ansar AbbasiISLAMABAD: A sitting senior judge of the Lahore High Court has been accused of deep links with the underworld and a report has been sent to the Lahore High Court (LHC) chief justice who [...]

There are two forms of Ziaists: (1) political Ziaists who keep conspiring against democracy on the pretext of one excuse or the other; (2) militant Ziaists who are represented in the shape of operatives and sympathizers of Taliban and (more...)

Ansar Abbasi admis that in Dr. Arsalan's case, Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was involved in corruption.... He complains that PML-N, PPP, PML-Q, MQM, Jamaat (more...)

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'Terrorists released in Pak due to lack of evidence' New Delhi (PTI): The failure of the Pakistani police and security agencies to gather sufficient evidence has led to the release of a large number of dreaded terrorists of outfits such as Al-Qaeda and Taliban who are known to have participated in major attacks in Pakistan, a report [...]

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IHC dismisses Farah Dogar case Updated at: 1245 PST, Friday, January 16, 2009 ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) today disposed off Farah Dogar case. In its verdict, the court termed the reassessment and rechecking of Farah’s marks correct. Earlier, Chief Justice IHC, Justice Sardar Muhammad Aslam Thursday [...]

Lahore High Court makes historyThe Lahore High Court set aside on Monday a 1999 sentence of the Field General Court Martial (FGCM) against an army officer it found guilty of filing fake income tax returns, apart from other instances of fraud. While not pronouncing on the other charges, the Court has ousted the jurisdiction of the FGCM in regard [...]

Do Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Imran Khan and other supportes of Iftikhar Chaudhry respect free judiciary? Or are they interested in only that kind of judiciary which can offer verdicts according to the the wishes of Jamaat-e-Islami, Tehreek-e-Insaf, and Taliban? Read the following news item in which Qazi shamelessly tried to pressurize the Supreme Court [...]

INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP - NEW REPORTReforming the Judiciary in PakistanIslamabad/Brussels, 16 October 2008: Return to civilian rule in Pakistan offers an opportunity to restore the rule of law and to reverse state-driven Islamisation, which has empowered Islamist radicals at the cost of the moderate majority.Reforming the Judiciary in [...]

According to one report, there are five challenges that the new President of Pakistan, Mr Asif Ali Zardari, will face. These are ones posed by rising militancy, a failing economy, fledgling democracy, conflict with India, and his own personal safety. More realistically, he is supposed “to respond to Western pressure to crack down on Taliban and [...]