Tag: supreme

On the 14th of January, the Punjab Assembly was dissolved by the Chief Minister of Punjab Parvez Elahi, and this ...

Regarding the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court of Pakistan, it may be argued that airing the internal disagreements ...

Undoubtedly now the battle ground is open for a full-throttle lawyers’ movement that has been thrust upon society by the ...

In the spring of 2006, Umar Farooq Zahoor received a phone call. “I was in my office, when my mobile ...

A petition filed by the father of Dua Zehra, which challenged the Sindh High Court (SHC) decision on her marital ...

The judiciary hates it when criticised in political rallies or on social media. But time and again the judiciary ends ...

In the era of technology, cyber-crimes are increasing on a day-to-day basis and have rapidly caught the attention of state ...

The night of April 10, 2022 reinforced a sharp divide in the educated segment of society: between PTI supporters and ...

The judgment on the Presidential Reference seeking the top court’s opinion on defection by parliamentarians has seemingly made the situation ...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan, in a split 3-2 decision, has stated that in case of a vote in a ...

If the existing political and constitutional morass bedeviling the country was not serious enough, President Dr Alvi has written a ...

In the past month, there has been much discussion on whether the Superior Courts can interfere in parliamentary procedure and ...

The PTI’s much-vaunted three-and-a-half-year sheen of moral rectitude and high ethical standards is losing its shine with embarrassing rapidity. But ...

When Paul Keating, the former prime minister of Australia, built on the four successive election victories of his legendary predecessor, ...

Like many other countries, the constitutional scheme of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is based on trichotomy of power, viz ...

A five-member bench headed Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial and including Justice Ijazul Ahsan, Justice Mohammad Ali ...

The right to liberty and the security of a person are enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). ...

Why is Pakistan's justice system perceived to be a 'weak' system? Why is it failing to safeguard the life and ...

Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, a Pakistan-based jurist serving as Supreme Court judge, issued a powerful and debate-provoking judgment on ...

A constitutional writ petition has been filed by former senator Farhatullah Babar before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) challenging Prevention ...

There are as many political systems in the world as there are countries. It goes without saying that some countries ...

It is now about a year since Pakistan’s higher education has been besieged by crisis. The situation was already not ...

Once again Pakistan stands on the edge of making history by appointing Justice Ayesha Malik as the first female Supreme ...

On the evening of the 13th of March 2020, the chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) General Muhammad ...

‘Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion.’ This is a famous quote of the former Chief Justice ...

The Supreme Court has referred the issue of Saad Hussain Rizvi's release to a two-member bench of the Lahore High ...