Islamabad: Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday gave Interior Minister Rehman Malik a day to submit documents to back his claim that he had renounced his British nationality. A three-Judge bench led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry issued the order while hearing a petition challenging the dual nationality of some members of the two Houses of Parliament. The apex court earlier suspended the membership of parliament of Farahnaz Ispahani, the media...
10:47 AM, May 31, 2012
The brother of the Pakistani doctor who has been jailed for helping the US trace Osama Bin Laden, claims he is being made a scapegoat and now wants Pakistan's apex court to intervene. ...
06:58 PM, May 29, 2012
Islamabad: Sixty-five per cent of Pakistanis want Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to resign after his conviction of contempt by the Supreme Court, according to a poll conducted by a leading media group. The poll conducted by Geo news channel said the apex court's verdict had resulted in mixed views among the people, with 36 per cent saying they were happy about it, 32 per cent expressing sadness and 31...
01:03 PM, May 08, 2012
Islamabad: A defiant Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday said there is no law under which Pakistan's judiciary can disqualify him, days after his conviction by the Supreme Court for contempt. Gilani, the longest-ruling Pakistan Premier, said that he intended to continue as premier despite calls from opposition parties to resign, saying only the Speaker of the National Assembly or lower house of parliament could disqualify him. "I have...
04:38 PM, Apr 30, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has been convicted for contempt of court after he refused to write to the Swiss government asking them to reopen graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. But the sentence appeared to be symbolic more than anything else. Gilani made history by becoming the first prime minister in Pakistani history to be found guilty of contempt of court. The seven-judge bench was...
07:29 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Islamabad: The Pakistan Supreme Court on Thursday convicted Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in connection with a contempt case. Though the court has not announced any jail term for Gilani, the decision has come as a big blow to the Pakistan government. Gilani has been sentenced till the rising of the court. The case was registered against Gilani after his refusal to write to the Swiss government to reopen graft...
10:29 AM, Apr 26, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities have assured the Supreme Court that computerised national identity cards will soon be issued to all members of the minority Hindu community, including married women who were facing problems in obtaining the cards. Following the assurance, a three-judge bench led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry on Monday disposed of a suo moto case it had taken up on problems faced by married Hindu women in obtaining CNICs....
02:02 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Islamabad: Three Hindu women, who were allegedly forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslims, on Wednesday said they wanted to live with their husbands after Pakistan's Supreme Court gave them the right to decide their future. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry asked Rinkle Kumari alias Faryal Bibi, Lata Kumari alias Hafsa Bibi and Asha Kumari alias Haleema Bibi to inform the registrar's office whether they...
09:51 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Islamabad: Facing immense pressure from the Supreme Court to revive graft cases against Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday said the judiciary should let Parliament decide the Presidential immunity issue. In a reply submitted to the apex court over his indictment for contempt for failing to act on its orders to reopen corruption cases against Zardari in Switzerland, Gilani asked how the President of a sovereign...
05:12 PM, Mar 19, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday directed authorities to paste a notice at the residence of former President Pervez Musharraf seeking his response to a petition for registering a second FIR regarding the assassination of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry issued the order during the hearing of a petition by Bhutto's former protocol officer Aslam Chaudhry, who wants a second FIR to be...
02:41 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday summoned Cabinet Secretary Nargis Sethi as a witness in contempt proceedings against Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and adjourned the high-profile case till March 7. During the proceedings, Gilani's lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan said the premier's defence was that he never intended to act in contempt of court. Gilani was bound to act on advice from officials regarding the reopening of graft cases against President...
12:57 PM, Feb 28, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, the main accuser in the memo scandal, on Thursday claimed that Pakistan's former envoy Husain Haqqani had acted on the directions of senior government leaders and had devised "bad boys" as code words to refer to army and ISI chiefs. Ijaz made the remarks on the second day of his deposition via videoconferencing from London before a Pakistani judicial commission probing the memo scandal which...
12:06 AM, Feb 24, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's Cabinet on Tuesday reposed "full confidence" in Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani following his indictment for contempt by the Supreme Court, even as he said he did not want to be a "burden" in any way for government. The Cabinet "unanimously applauded the conduct" of Gilani in the Supreme Court and "reposed full confidence in his leadership" during a meeting chaired by the Prime Minister. Gilani thanked the Cabinet...
06:01 PM, Feb 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Pakistan Supreme Court indicted Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani for contempt, making him the first Pakistani PM to be chargesheeted. Appearing in court for the second time this year, Gilani pleaded innocent to the charges that his government had failed to re-open corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. If he is convicted he faces a disqualification from the assembly and six months in jail. "Is the...
11:27 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Wife of a diplomat is taken into surgery with shrapnel injuries to her spine. Israel blames Iran for the attack. ...
10:52 PM, Feb 13, 2012
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