‘Bench Fixing’: Controversial Actions Not Doing Judiciary Any Favours
From the Supreme Court's (SC) suo motu notice to the formation of the bench hearing it, the decision to take ...
Monday, March 20, 2023
Tag: Umar Ata Bandial
SC Suo Motu Bench Should Be Reconstituted: Lawyer
The two judges who are part of the larger bench constituted for the suo motu hearing on KP and Punjab ...
Audio Leak: Top Lawyer Bodies To Approach SJC Against SC Judge
Top lawyer bodies, including Pakistan Bar Council, have announced to file separate complaints against the SC judge, purportedly featured in ...
After A Year In Office, CJP Bandial’s Performance Plagued By Appointments Controversy
The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) has decided 1,164 cases during the last 15 days – from 15 January to ...
PAC Requests ‘Dam Fund’ Records From Supreme Court
Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Noor Alam Khan made a written request to the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP), Justice ...
Corruption Couldn’t Be Eradicated Due To Weaknesses In System: CJP Bandial
While hearing PTI chairman Imran Khan's petition on Tuesday challenging recent amendments in the National Accountability Ordinance, Chief Justice of ...
New JIT Formed For Arshad Sharif Murder Case Investigation
As per the directives of the Supreme Court, a new Joint Investigation Team (JIT) has been formulated to probe into ...
Supreme Court Gives Punjab Police 24 Hours To Register FIR Of Imran Khan Assassination Attempt
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Punjab Police Inspector General Faisal Shahkar to register the FIR of the assassination ...
Azam Nazeer Tarar Resigns As Federal Law Minister Citing ‘Personal Reasons’
Federal Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar has resigned from his post, citing 'personal reasons' in his letter of resignation to ...
‘Prime Minister Shehbaz’s Meeting With French President Macron Was Crucial’
Analyst Muzamal Suharwardy said on Saturday Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had emphasised the need for better ties with France to ...
Two More Supreme Court Justices Urge CJP To Expressly Appoint Top Court Judges
Two more judges of the Supreme Court have written to Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial emphasising the need ...
CJP Bandial Terms Sadiq and Ameen Article ‘Draconian’
Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial has said on Tuesday that Article 62(1)(f), which requires parliamentarians to be 'sadiq ...
Justice Isa Urges CJP To ‘Immediately’ Convene Commission Meeting To Appoint Top Court Judges
Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court has urged Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial to expressly convene ...
Desperate Maverick
Imran Khan is so blinded by his “popularity” that he has lost his way. Consider. His obsession with the Miltablishment ...
Justices Isa And Tariq ‘Dismayed’ At CJP Bandial’s ‘Inappropriate’ Speech
Supreme Court Justices Qazi Faez Isa and Sardar Tariq Masood have written a letter to the Chief Justice of Pakistan ...
The Collapsing National Institutions of Pakistan
Over the last few months the country has faced the onslaught of a serious political and economic crisis and this ...
Appointment Of Supreme Court Judges: A Judgment Of Excellence
One of the few positives to have emerged from the chaotically mismanaged Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) meeting of July ...
Caretakers To The Rescue
Shortly after Umar Ata Bandial was elevated to the post of the Chief Justice of Pakistan early this year, I ...
JCP Rejects Elevation Of CJP Bandial’s Five Nominees To Supreme Court
The Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) has rejected the elevation of five judges, nominated by Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar ...
New ECL Rules: SC Asks Govt To Bring Amendments Within ‘Ambit Of Law’
The Supreme Court has given the federal government a week to review the amendments recently made to the Exit Control ...
In Letter To CJP, Justice Isa Seeks Appointment Of High Court Judges To Fill Vacant SC Seats
In a detailed letter, senior puisne judge Justice Qazi Faez Isa has called on Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata ...
SC Says Cabinet Members Enjoy No ‘Constitutional Immunity’
Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial has stated that under Article 248 of the Constitution of Pakistan, members of ...
Justice Bandial arrives at the apex of the apex court in troubled times.
The new Chief Justice of Pakistan, Umar Ata Bandial, has provoked comment in his first public address before the bar ...
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
Shaukat Siddiqui At 100: The Fire-Breathing Musician
Shaukat Siddiqui was a great novelist. He was...
Pakistan-IMF Deal: Concerns Of A Potential Default Resurface
Pakistan is struggling to avoid a default. The...