MULTAN: Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Sunday that people who were waiting for a clash between institutions and subsequent army intervention were mistaken and they would be disappointed.
Addressing a public gathering in his hometown, Mr Gilani emphatically stated that there would be no clash of institutions and the army which...
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ISLAMABAD: President Supreme Court Bar Association Qazi Anwar on Sunday said the government wanted a confrontation with the country’s superior judiciary.
He said the lawyer community has called for a countrywide strike on January 28 to protest against the government’s failure to implement the Supreme Court’s NRO verdict.
Qazi Anwar said Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s...
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ISLAMABAD: The federal government filed a review petition on Saturday against the Supreme Court decision declaring the National Reconciliation Ordinance unconstitutional.
The order was in contradiction of the court’s earlier ruling on the NAB Ordinance, the petition contended. The move came exactly one month after the apex court judgment of Dec 16.
“To resolve this contradiction...
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ISLAMABAD: The government has filed a review petition against the short order of the Supreme Court’s National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) verdict. The verdict had ordered the reopening of criminal and corruption cases against politicians including President Asif Ali Zardari.
The government had appointed the Advocate on record Raja Abdul Ghafoor to file the review petition...
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RAWALPINDI: The National Accountability Bureau asked accountability courts on Tuesday not to revive ‘corruption references’ against President Asif Ali Zardari because he ‘enjoys immunity’ under the Constitution.
The application, filed by one of NAB’s deputy prosecutors general, said that the bureau wanted to withdraw an earlier application because the application for reviving the cases was...
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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was told here on Monday that Rs7.5 billion, out of the Rs9 billion Bank of Punjab (BoP) loan scam, had been recovered from Sheikh Afzal, the chief executive of the Haris Steel Industry, and his accomplices by seizing foreign and domestic assets owned by the accused.
A three-judge bench, comprising Chief...
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ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik has rejected corruption allegations against him and other politicians. Malik says the cases are politically motivated and until proven guilty no one can say that the charges are true.
‘Allegations are always there, allegations are on our judiciary. Allegations are on our leadership,’ he said.
‘Well, fine. If the Supreme Court...
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ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has not sent any formal request to the Swiss government to reopen money laundering cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.
According to sources, the bureau is awaiting government’s instructions to contact the Swiss authorities in accordance with the Supreme Court order to reopen cases in the country and abroad...
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ISLAMABAD: In what has been billed as a verdict that may change the course of country’s political history, the Supreme Court on Wednesday declared the controversial National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) as never to have existed and against the Constitution by reviving all cases and reversing acquittals of its beneficiaries, thus putting the PPP parliamentarians...
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