KARACHI: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday restrained the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) from holding marriages or any other functions on the land allotted to it for airport operations and ancillary facilities across the country. An SC bench, comprising Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan and Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, headed by the Chief Justice … Read more
KARACHI: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday ordered the demolition of residential and commercial building Nasla Tower within the next 10 days. The order was issued by a three-member SC bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed and comprising Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan and Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed. The SC ordered … Read more
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court, while disposing of a six-year-old petition, directed the provincial government on Monday to remove encroachments from a plot allocated for a park in Taiser Town Scheme 45. Mian Trust, a charitable body that runs a technical education school in the neighbourhood, had filed a petition in 2005. The trust had … Read more
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Friday directed the Sindh government to send the matter of monthly minimum wages of unskilled workers in the province for redetermination to Sindh Minimum Wages Board (SMWB) which will complete the process (of redetermination) within two months. While announcing its judgment reserved earlier in several identical petitions challenging fixation … Read more
KARACHI: Anti-Terrorism Court-VII (ATC-VII) on Friday reserved its verdict in the murder trial of famous social worker and former director of the Orangi Pilot Project (OPP), Parveen Rehman. After the counsel for the complainant and the defence concluded their final arguments, the judge announced that he would issue the verdict on October 28. Rehman was … Read more
KARACHI: Abdul Rehman and Sawera, the alleged killers of four TikToker friends in the port city, have decided to contest murder charges against them. According to sources, the suspect Abdul Rehman had allegedly killed four victims — Muskan Sheikh, Amir Khan, Rehan Shah and Saddam Hussain — on February 1, 2021, when Sawera, another TikToker … Read more
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has ordered to attach certain assets of Hascol Petroleum Limited in execution proceedings of a money decree issued by a court in England. High Court of Justice, Business and Property Courts of England and Wales, Commercial Court (QBD) on June 15, 2018, had awarded $9,500,000/ to M/s Mena Energy … Read more
KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Wednesday declared chief of proscribed Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) Manzoor Pashteen, MNA Mohsin Dawar and two others as proclaimed offenders in a sedition case. Police had booked the PTM chief, Muhammad Shafi, Hidayatullah Pashteen and MNAs Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar on sedition charges. On Wednesday, Wazir was produced … Read more
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday rejected the bail pleas of Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani and eleven others in NAB’s assets beyond means reference filed against them. However, six other suspects including Durrani’s wife Nahid, son Shahbaz and daughters Sonia, Sara and Shahhan were granted bail. Bail plea of another suspect Aslam … Read more
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday indicated that the half a century old legal dispute over the estate of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s sister Fatima Jinnah may end after all the parties agreed to establish a medical and dental college at the Mohatta Palace. SHC issued the directions after all parties agreed that the … Read more
KARACHI: District and session judge Karachi East on Tuesday granted pre-arrest bails to deputy and assistant commissioners of Korangi in the Mehran Town factory fire case. On Monday, Deputy Director-Korangi Abdul Sami, Assistant Director Khawar Hayat and senior building inspector Syed Muhammad Salman Shahid of the Sindh Building Control Authority were also granted interim pre-arrest … Read more
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday was informed that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has directed the provincial government to provide a requisite date and notifications necessary for the purpose of delimitation within a month for the local government elections. A two-judge bench of SHC headed by Chief Justice Ahmed Ali M Sheikh … Read more
Sindh High Court on Friday ordered the provincial government not to give postings to officers who have been convicted by the accountability courts or are on bail in references filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). The order was passed by a division bench headed by Justice Salahuddin Panhwar on some identical petitions. The bench … Read more
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) observed that provincial secretary finance signed billions of rupees Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with State Life Corporation for group insurance of Sindh employees without authorization from Sindh chief secretary. It said that the provincial chief secretary, being chairman of Provincial Welfare Funds, was the competent authority to sign the … Read more
The Sindh High Court on Monday rejected the bail pleas of former provincial education secretary Noor Muhammad Leghari and Education Department’s special section officer Dr Kishore Kumar in a corruption reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). The judgment authored by Justice Muhammad Iqbal Kalhoro, head of a two-judge bench, issued the verdict in … Read more
The Sindh High Court on Monday directed State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) deputy governor and Federal Investigation Agency’s director cybercrime wing to appear in person in a petition challenging the ban imposed by central bank on cryptocurrency. The high court directed the finance secretary to explain the measures taken to legislate the use of cryptocurrency … Read more
Sindh High Court on Wednesday directed the prosecutor for the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to provide details of the proceedings held to issue arrest warrants of Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) Leader Sohail Anwar Siyal. When a petition of Sindh’s former home minister for confirmation of pre-arrest bail was taken up for hearing by a two-judge … Read more
KARACHI: A legal fight between comedian Umer Sharif and his wife Zareen Ghazal over a house took a new turn at the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday after the purported purchaser filed an application to become an intervener in the case. In July, Sharif took to the SHC to stop one of his wives … Read more
The Sindh High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition seeking the disqualification of Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah under Article 62(1)(f) for declaring a false affidavit. A two-member bench headed by Chief Justice Ahmed Ali M Sheikh had earlier reserved his order on the maintainability of the petition filed by Leader of Opposition in … Read more
The Sindh High Court on Tuesday directed National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) prosecutor to seek instructions from the watchdog regarding the issuance of arrest warrants of senior PPP leader Nisar Khoro. A two-judge bench headed by Justice Muhammad Iqbal Kalhoro heard the petition filed by Khoro for his pre-arrest bail. The court had asked the prosecutor … Read more
The Sindh High Court (SHC) came down hard on the Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) on Monday for its delay and reluctance over removing illegally erected structures in two different neighborhoods of Karachi. In the matter pertaining to removal of illegally built structure over a plot in Surjani Town, the law officer of SBCA tried … Read more
Appointment of retired officers in Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) along with its vice chancellor were challenged in Sindh High Court on Saturday. Invoking constitutional jurisdiction under Article 199, petitioner Mumtaz Hussain also pleaded the court to order formation of a Joint Investigation Team to probe alleged corruption of billions in the university. The … Read more
KARACHI: It was a long, hard and eventful day at the Supreme Court Karachi registry for Advocate General Sindh, Sulman Talibuddin, who while representing the provincial government had to face harsh remarks of three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed. When he submitted that the provincial government had no funds for rehabilitation of people … Read more
KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Sindh government to rehabilitate all those people who lost their homes during the encroachment removal drive along the major storm water drains of the city within a year. The direction came from a three-member SC bench headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed while hearing identical applications filed … Read more
The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday dismissed petitions of the owner and residents of Nasla Tower that was seeking a review of the June 16 judgment that had ordered the demolition of the 15-storey building in Sindhi Muslim Cooperative Housing Society (SMCHS) When review petitions were taken up by a three-member SC bench headed by … Read more
KARACHI: Sindh Local Government Department, on Tuesday, appraised the Sindh High Court about the notification of Dogs Population Control and Mass Vaccination Rules. Sindh government also informed a two-member bench headed by Chief Justice Ahmed Ali M Sheikh that the stray dogs complaint cell had been re- launched with helpline No. 1093 in the local … Read more
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday directed Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) to get the four elephants of Karachi Zoological Garden and Safari Park examined by renowned German veterinary Doctor Frank Goritz. The directions came from a two-judge bench headed by Justice Irfan Saaddat Khan while hearing a petition regarding the ill-keeping of elephants at … Read more
KARACHI: Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday granted interim pre-arrest bail to Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani in an inquiry of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) pertaining to alleged misappropriation in construction of MPAs hostel. Durrani earlier in the day had filed a constitutional petition seeking pre-arrest bail. Last week, NAB had converted an investigation … Read more
