Posts Tagged ‘Supreme Court of Pakistan’

It seems like the Memogate scandal, if there was any, is losing steam quickly. Conflicting statements from “Pakistani Nizad Amreeki Businessman” Mansoor Ijaz,  which sway between the much liked “Get-Zardari” to no so liked “Damn-ISI” chants,  are making the Memogate scandal as an anti-climax (I didn’t say non-starter, as ghairat [...]

“…people do not take arms, in an organized fashion, against the might of the state, or against fellow human beings without rhyme or reason. Guided by an instinct for survival, and according to Thomas Hobbes, a fear of lawlessness that is encoded in our collective conscience, we seek an order. However, when that order comes with the price of [...]

The PPP government has requested the court to reopen the Bhutto case to rectify the history and expect justice from the independent judiciary. According to Kamrab Rehmat: The 1974 murder of Nawab Mohamed Ahmed Khan, a dissident of Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), was used in 1977 when Zia toppled Bhutto as the ground for the PPP [...]

Related articles: Will Pakistan’s FREE judiciary try army generals for treason? Justice Jehanzeb Rahim of Peshawar High Court challenges contempt notice by the Supreme Court Adalat ho gi ma kay jaisi – by Honest People ‘Generals can be served notices.’ Really? When? ’فوج،دیگر اداروں کا فیصلہ چیف [...]

Here is a classic case of the selective morality of Pakistan's urban, pro-establishment class. Where are Imran Khan, Munawar Hassan and Nawaz Sharif? Were are Aitzaz Ahsan, Hamid Khan and Justice Wajihuddin Ahmed? Where are Hamid Mir, Ansar Abbasi, Mosharraf Zaidi and Cyril Almeida? Where is (the fake) civil society? Why don't they demand from the [...]

Related articles: Congratulations, Asma Jahangir won the SCBA elections – by pejamistri Asma Jahangir’s victory is a loss for Jang Group’s yellow journalism – by Ahmed Iqbalabadi President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani felicitated Asma Jahangir on her election as the SCBA president. President Zardari said [...]

I was away for few weeks but alot has happened since I wrote last. CJ, Media, Lawyers, Taliban almost came full circle. Media had the field-day when they delivered the breaking news about the withdrawal of the judges reinstatement notification. The question is this "bay-gharait " media never even repents on such hypothetical news without [...]

The Supreme Court's order (on the 18th amendment) throws light on certain very important issues about the court’s recent role and function in our constitutional democracy. The court has been stretching beyond its constitutional mandate. Suo motu notices were issued to fix prices of sugar and other commodities. Then the executive’s function [...]

Pakistan's supreme court has asked parliament to review a constitutional amendment that would see senior court judges appointed by a parliamentary committee, delaying a potential divisive change to the relationship between the judiciary and the government. The ruling on Thursday came after legal challenges were launched against a number of [...]

So much that a sitting of all the 17 honourable judges of the Supreme Court (SC) was called at midnight on the basis of what is fast turning out to be just a rumour run by a private television station? And despite a clear denial within the hour by the prime minister no less that any alleged de-notification of the superior judiciary’s [...]

Here is something which the critical readers of the LUBP would love to read: Watch Abbas Ather's conversation with Asma Jahangir in today's Column Kaar (16 October 2010). http://pkpolitics.com/2010/10/16/column-kaar-16-october-2010 At about 8:00 minutes in the above video, Abbas Ather reveals without naming that it was a newspaper (Jang [...]

Ali Ahmed Kurd is absolutely right in saying that: یہ داغ داغ اجالا یہ شب گزیدہ سحر وہ انتظار تھا جسکا یہ وہ سحر تو نہیں (Transl: This leprous daybreak, dawn night’s fangs have mangled – This is not that long-looked-for break of day (Faiz)) Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry [...]

Geo TV's rumour mongering The Supreme Court’s “restraining order” to stop government functionaries from any moves to undermine the judiciary have brought to the fore the unsavoury role being played by a section of the electronic media in the political arena. On Thursday, the chief justice of Pakistan felt compelled to call an [...]

Sacked Pakistan judges fear repeat performance: Jokers in the Supreme Court of Pakistan Apparently, it was disinformation spread by Geo TV and made judges fool. They overreacted on rumours and got trapped in the Geo TV's game to improve its quickly falling ratings. Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday warned the government against firing [...]

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - After this country's then-military dictator deposed the Supreme Court chief justice in 2007, a boisterous movement of protesting lawyers took to the streets and ushered in the return of democracy. Now that same court may be poised to bring about a premature end to Pakistan's elected government. Since its December judgment [...]

History has witnessed FOUR Martial Laws in Pakistan. Pakistanis are well aware, what happens when their politicians get too naughty to handle! But, state of affairs have taken a new course lately never seen before in the history of Pakistan. NRO scam, Swiss scandal, row over 18th amendment, clash between judiciary and presidency, but eccentrically [...]

Related articles on LUBP: The unruly lawyers, for sale judges and the politics of briefcases – by Sikandar Mehdi No entry for CJ Khwaja Sharif et al Day before yesterday, I was sitting with a friend and all of a sudden we saw on the TV lawyers breaking courtroom windows in Lahore. The fuss was about the transfer of a judge from [...]

This business of the Supreme Court taking it upon themselves to overrule the people's elected representatives in parliament is really getting ridiculous. Now, having failed to fix the match, the Supreme Court appears to be trying a little spot-fixing of its own. Daily Times describes the situation pretty well in an editorial today: The Supreme [...]

The Supreme Court (SC) has extended the tenure of 32 additional judges working in the high courts of the four provinces till further orders. The eleventh hour decision has been taken to overcome the situation created by a legal void due to delay in implementation of Article 175-A, which lays down the procedure for appointment of judges to the [...]

منگل بیس جولائی کو اسلام آباد میں سپریم کورٹ کے فل بنچ کے سترہ ججوں کے سامنے وہ بھی ہوگیا جو ایک دن ہونا ہی  تھا۔ اٹھارویں ترمیم کو چیلنج کرنے والے ایک صحافی درخواست گزار نے ایک ہاتھ میں قرآن [...]

Source: Wall Street Journal- ASIA EDITION When U.S. President Barack Obama sharply challenged a recent Supreme Court decision in his State of the Union address, prompting a soto voce rejoinder from Justice Samuel Alito, nobody was concerned that the contretemps would spark a blood feud between the judiciary and the executive. The notion [...]

By Omar Khattab in Lahore Yesterday Pakistan’s People’s Party once again gave evidence of its unflinching faith in democracy and peaceful co-existence. Despite the fact that egged on by the likes of Nawaz Sharif, the Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and his fellow judges have been flouting one constitution provision after another, 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...)