KARACHI – A Sindh court has summoned Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice-President and Chief Organiser Maryam Nawaz for allegedly insulting the "state institutions". On Wednesday, an additional sessions court in Sukkur sent a notice to Maryam Nawaz, summoning her on March 10. ...

Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial on Friday during the hearing of the petition filed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan against the NAB amendments remarked that balance can be only maintained in society with the independence of the judiciary, and judges will continue ...

ISLAMABAD – The Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) has approved the nomination of Justice Ayesha Malik for her appointment as the Supreme Court judge with a vote of five to four. Justice Ayesha will be the first female Supreme Court judge in the judicial history of Pakistan if ...

LAHORE – India’s former Supreme Court Judge Markandey Katju has warned New Delhi to not take Pakistan lightly as it is a nuclear power. “Pakistan will strongly retaliate if India tries to cross the Line of Control (LoC),” Markandey said. He pronounced that India cannot even conduct ...

[image: Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar. PHOTO: FILE] ISLAMABAD - Another Supreme Court judge has called into question the May 2018 reconstitution of an apex court bench by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar and called the decision ‘unwarranted ...

A full court reference on the sad demise of former judges of the Supreme Court was held in Islamabad on Tuesday. The reference was held in honor of former chief justices of Supreme Court late Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, late Justice Ajmal Mian and apex court's judges late Justice Mukhtar Ahmed Junejo ...

ISLAMABAD - A full court reference on the sad demise of former judges of the Supreme Court including Justice Nasim Hasan Shah, Justice Rana Bhagwandas and Justice Zafar Hussain Mirza was held in Islamabad on Monday. Addressing the full court reference, Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar ...

ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice (CJ), Mian Saqib Nisar on Thursday administered the oath of office to Justice Yahya Afridi, CJ, Peshawar High Court, as Judge of the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan. The oath taking ceremony was held here at Supreme Court building, in a simple but dignified manner. The ...

In Maldives, a court has sentenced two Supreme Court justices to more than nineteen months in prison on charges of influencing lower court decisions.   The Maldives Criminal Court has sentenced Chief Justice Abdulla Saeed and Justice Ali Hameed to one year, seven months and six days each ...

KARACHI - The Supreme Court on Saturday expressed outrage over the alleged rampant corruption in Sindh Coal Authority. A two-member bench, comprising Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Maqbool Baqar, had taken up a suo motu case regarding corruption in the Sindh Coal Authority at the apex court's ...