lawyers (barristers, attorneys) of Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 3rd Apr, 2018 ):The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Tuesday summoned Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) to assist in a case regarding blockage of Computerized National Identity Cards (CNICs) of several citizens by the National Database Regulatory ...

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump's personal lawyer asked a federal judge on Monday to force adult film star Stormy Daniels to use arbitration to settle a dispute over an agreement to keep quiet about a sexual encounter she says she had with Trump. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, ...

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court disposed on Wednesday the contempt of court petition against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairperson Imran Khan. Senior lawyer Naseer Ahmed Kiyani had filed the petition against Imran, accusing the PTI chief of making derogatory remarks against former chief justice of ...

ISLAMABAD: The indictment of three co-accused persons in a supplementary reference against Senator Ishaq Dar was once again deferred on Tuesday, as the legal counsel for one of the accused, Syed Mansoor Raza Rizvi, allegedly misbehaved with the accountability court judge and exchanged harsh ...

PESHAWAR: The legal fraternity in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday observed a strike across the province to protest the killing of a lawyer in Swabi district. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council had given the call to protest the killing of Zainullah advocate in Swabi. According to reports, some unidentified ...

At this, Shah threw his power of attorney at the judge's table and said he was representing Rizvi. "You are acting in contempt [of court]," the judge shot back, asking the lawyer to remain calm while talking. "You will send me to the jail, [feel free to] send me," the IHCBA office-bearer said, before taking his ...

In a supplementary reference filed recently, NAB named National Bank of Pakistan President Saeed Ahmed, Naeem Mehmood and Mansoor Rizvi as co-accused. The latter two have been identified as directors of one of Dar's companies. All three are accused of aiding Dar in opening fictitious bank ...

PESHAWAR: A senior lawyer has requested Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar through a letter to visit the Supreme Court's Peshawar Registry Branch because ... Muhammad Khurshid, who is a former deputy attorney general of Pakistan, submitted that the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were also deprived of ...

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She said that the church provides sanctuary to such people, especially if “there was a circumstance where deportation would mean splitting of a family”. Talking to Geo News, Saheeda said immigration had told her to go back to Pakistan, but she came to the church instead. “I cannot go there [Pakistan].

A jury in Fresno, Calif., has ordered Pakistani American heart surgeon Dr. Pervaiz Chaudhry to pay tens of millions of dollars to the family of the man he left in a coma six years ago following heart surgery. Chaudhry, who is currently in Pakistan where he has family, conducted heart surgery in 2012 on then ...

Sources had said on Saturday that the Ministry of Defence on Saturday had refused to provide security to Musharraf upon his return to Pakistan. According to a letter sent to Musharraf's lawyer, a copy of which is available with Geo News, the "provision of security under the subject case does not fall under ...

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned the indictment proceeding of former PML-N senator Nehal Hashmi for one day while seeking the help of senior lawyers in deciding about his punishment. During the hearing of contempt of court case against Hashmi, he once again ...

Lawyers for the Pulse nightclub shooter's widow said Monday that the government has revealed that his father had been an FBI informant for 11 years before ... Seddique Mateen, had been sending money to Afghanistan and Turkey, possibly to fund violent insurrection against the government of Pakistan.

Defamation suit: Imran using delaying tactics, says Shehbaz's lawyer ... LAHORE: Counsel for Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday told a sessions court that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan is using delaying ... Imran's lawyer Babar Awan continues to be a no-show in the case.

A year later, Bibi was sentenced to death under Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law despite strong opposition from national and international human rights groups. Blasphemy laws in Pakistan, where 97 percent of the population is Muslim, were introduced by the military dictator General Zia-ul-Haq in ...

Bibi's case illustrates how blasphemy laws are used to persecute the weakest of the weak among Pakistan's religious minorities. ... In 2014, Rashid Rehman, a distinguished human rights lawyer brave enough to represent those most vulnerable to blasphemy charges -- women and children of religious ...

The lawyers' body stated in the petition that the chief minister in his address to the gathering of the PHCBA had announced a special grant of Rs10 ... and general secretaries to the respondent, chief minister, but no response was received from the government side,” the lawyer body claimed in the petition.

Singers pay tribute to the late Asma Jahangir, a respected Pakistani human rights lawyer. (ucanews.com photo) ... Choir members and musicians gave emotional performances dedicated to Pakistan human rights advocate Asma Jahangir, who passed away this month. Songs and poetic tributes punctuated ...

Nisar has said one reason Pakistan isn't a superpower is that Pakistani gardeners take way more smoking breaks than their Chinese counterparts. ... (All three men are from the governing Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, or PML-N.) And so Nisar goes around exhorting fellow judges, lawyers and citizens at ...

An appellate court in Pakistan on Tuesday suspended the three-year jail terms handed down to 25 suspects over the lynching of a university student who was falsely accused of blasphemy, a lawyer said. Mohammad Mashal Khan, 23, was killed by a mob on his university campus in Mardan in April 2016 ...

Amjad Malik, the solicitor advocate of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, attended as an observer-counsel the proceedings in the National Accountability Bureau's (NAB) case against Sharif involving Robert Radley at the Pakistan High Commission last week. Barrister Fahad Hashmi was also part of ...

According to SSP Investigation Mubasher Mekan, the deceased lawyers have been identified as Rana Ishtiaq and Owais. The armed person, Kashif Rajput, opened fire at Ishtiaq — who is his cousin — over a family dispute, the official added. Subsequently, Owais, also came under fire and was left injured.

We're going to remember the human rights lawyer and activist who's been called Pakistan's bravest citizen. That was the headline of Asma Jahangir's obituary, written by Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid. Jahangir died ... Second, we will not accept jerks on the bench to intimidate women lawyers. GROSS: ...

News of the death of Asma Jahangir today is echoing within her native Pakistan and across the world. She was a tireless advocate for inalienable rights of all people and for equality - whether in her capacity as a Pakistani lawyer in the domestic justice system, as a global civil society activist, or as a Special ...

THE chief justice of Pakistan, Saqib Nisar, peers through a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles at the ingredients list on a packet of powdered milk, shakes his head in sadness and then shoos 20 lawyers for the ... The court is cramping the space for democracy, argues Babar Sattar, a lawyer and columnist.

The all-important book was a guide for female lawyers, authored by the lawyer himself, and alternated between recipes for bhuna ghosht and warnings about the ... The legal profession in Pakistan continues to be a hostile and unwelcoming environment for women, with little progress over the years.

ISLAMABAD: Faisal Siddiqui, who is the counsel of Naqeebullah's father, said on Wednesday that the Supreme Court's order regarding the formation joint investigation team (JIT) to probe case did not mention any time frame. While speaking to Geo News outside the apex court, he remarked that the "court's ...