Chief Justice Sindh High Court Justice Maqbool Baqar has ordered the IG Sindh to expedite the pace of investigation into killing case of three employees of a private television were attacked in North Nazimabad area last week. The IG Sindh has been directed to furnish a report in this regard “at the earliest.The incident that […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has restrained the interior ministry and the Crime Investigation Department (CID) authorities from raiding the franchises of cellular companies that are allegedly selling mobile SIMs illegally. Justice Ghulam Sarwar Korai, who headed the bench, also issued notices to the secretaries of the interior ministry, provincial home department, provincial police […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court upheld on Tuesday a death sentence awarded by a sessions court to an accused in a case pertaining to the murder of TV producer Afreen Baig. A sessions court had sentenced inJune 2009 to death Mohammad Bux, a driver of the deceased, after finding him guilty of killing Afreen Baig […]
KARACHI: Abdul Sattar Hakim hurriedly sorts out the stacks of the court summons, stuffs them in his bag and rushes out of the Sindh High Court building on a motorcycle. The 60-year-old court bailiff’s race is not against time, but against technology – he has to serve the notices to the litigants before an e-mail […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Monday directed the Election Commission of Pakistan and the Election Tribunal in Karachi to furnish their replies in two petitions filed by Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah and a Pakistan Peoples Party MNA against the verification of thumb impression of voters on ballots in their respective constituencies. A […]
A SIGNIFICANT contributor to the law and order situation in the country has been the unaccountable SIMs which are then used either to coordinate acts of terrorism or criminal activities, as well as in some extreme cases to detonate bombs. Owing to the absence of a regime where SIMs could be associated with the person […]
SUKKUR: Saturday was the second hearing of the murder case of Geo Television reporter Wali Khan Babar in which neither the lawyers nor the witnesses showed up. The case was recently shifted to Kandhkot as the prosecutors and witnesses were facing security threats in Karachi. The first hearing of the case in Kandhkot was scheduled […]
KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday ordered the shifting of record and proceedings of a case pertaining to the murder of a journalist to Kashmore-Kandhkot after high court ordered transfer of the case. Faisal Mahmood alias Nafsiati, Syed Mohammad Ali Rizvi, Shahrukh alias Mani, Naveed alias Polka and Shakil alias Malik along with their absconding […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday transferred the murder case of journalist Wali Khan Babar from Karachi to an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Kashmore-Kandhkot district. At the request of the Sindh government to transfer the trial from the metropolis in view of threats to the lives of case investigators, witnesses and prosecution lawyers, […]
Karachi: The provincial government filed an application with the Sindh High Court on Monday seeking the transfer of Geo News reporter Wali Khan Babar’s murder trial from an anti-terrorism court of Karachi to Shikarpur over security concerns for witnesses, the prosecutors and investigators. The application was filed by the member inspection team of the high […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Election Commission of Pakistan and others on a constitutional petition of Irfanullah Marwat, a member of the provincial assembly belonging to the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), against the verification of thumb impression of voters on ballots in the PS-114 constituency. The seat was bagged […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday gave a last chance to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to file its reply on the petition of a young woman who sought deletion of a fake Facebook account in her name. Petitioner Umme Laila Naz, a resident of Korangi Sector 33-C, had moved the court against her close […]
PESHAWAR: The media watchdog organisation Freedom Network (FN) has demanded a judicial inquiry into reports that men in police uniforms kidnapped, tortured and detained investigative journalist Ali K Chishti. “What Chishti has described is shocking that the Karachi police could kidnap a journalist to deliver him to the Boss,” FN said. Ali Chishti, who writes […]
Karachi: Sindh High Court on Wednesday issued notices to secretary ministry of information, Pakistan Electronic Media Regularity Authority (Pemra) and a private TV channel on petition against airing of more than 10% foreign content in its transmission. Independent Media Corporation submitted in the petition that M/s Horizon private TV channel was telecasting 80% to 90% […]
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