ISLAMABAD: While former prime minister and chairman PTI Imran Khan on Thursday approached the Supreme Court with a plea to recall its setting aside of the April 3 ruling of then deputy speaker of the National Assembly Qasim Suri on a no-trust move the apex court held contrary to the Constitution, President Dr Arif Alvi wrote to the chief justice of Pakistan requesting him to form a judicial commission to conduct open hearings and probe the allegations of a conspiracy to engineer regime change.In

Justice Shamim was not present due to health reasons for today's proceedings presided over by the IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah and was represented by his son in court.... They have direct relations," Rana said. During the live programme, Rana appeared to take Justice Shamim live on a call to ask him about his meeting with Nawaz, but told Khanzada that his father had responded with" no comments".... Rana said a" special" Supreme Judicial Council( SJC) should be constituted to resolve the ma

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Join our Whatsapp channel ON Monday, a new chief justice presided over the Supreme Court, as people watched with hope and trepidation.... The mood was not as celebratory and optimistic as it was a year ago when Qazi Faez Isa had taken over the Supreme Court as chief justice. However, back then, in the age of innocence, many were na？... And in that hope, Isa’s beginning was everything that Umar Ata Bandial’s ending was not. But a year later, it seems those hopes were misplaced, for Isa has left

He added that there had been a tragedy in his family and requested the court to schedule the next hearing after December 12. The IHC chief justice, however, gave Shamim four days to submit his written response.... Shamim was previously represented by his son Ahmed Hassan Rana, an advocate of the Supreme Court.... It may be mentioned here that The News report had said that Shamim confirmed the contents of the leaked affidavit both on a phone call with the correspondent, as well as a message....