ISLAMABAD: Senior lawyers, many associated with the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI), on Wednesday voiced firm support for five Islamabad High Court (IHC) judges who recently raised alarm over interference in judicial affairs. The legal fraternity also expressed solidarity with Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangir, who was controversially restrained from performing judicial functions. At a convention attended by […]
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People urged to disregard any social media post attributed to CEC
ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja does not have any social media account on any presence in other social media platform and people must not pay heed on any tweet or post attributed to him on any social media platform as it was absolutely misleading and baseless. This was said by the ECP […]
PTI withdraws judicial reference against CEC Sikandar Raja
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday withdrew its reference against the chief election commissioner (CEC) shortly after reaching the office of the registrar Supreme Court (SC). PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry confirmed that the reference has been taken back so more supportive evidence can be added. According to the reports, PTI will include the demand for reconsideration of […]
CEC orders probe into firing incident in PP-167 by-poll
ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja has directed Inspector General Police Punjab to conduct an impartial inquiry of firing incident in PP-167 by- election (Lahore) and to take strict action against all those responsible for the violence and submit a report to the Election Commission. Taking notice about the firing and violence incident […]
PPP rejects NCOC-proposed poll postponement ‘request’ in AJK
MUZAFFARABAD: Pakistan People’s Party turned down a suggestion of the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) to postpone general elections in Azad Jammu Kashmir for two months. Addressing a press conference accompanying by other party leaders, PPP-AJK President Chaudhary Latif Akbar said that his party would organize a protest rally on June 5 in Muzaffarabad […]
Joint meeting of PMLN Central Executive Committee
*Resolution of the joint meeting of the Central Executive, Central Working Committees, Members of the National Assembly and the Senate of the PMLN* LAHORE: A joint meeting of PMLN Central Executive Committee (CEC), Central Working Committee (CWC), National Assembly and Senate members was held at Central Secretariat 180H Model Lahore in which the overall situation […]
LHC dismisses plea seeking presidential system in country
A bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday dismissed a plea seeking a court order for enforcement of presidential system in the country. A single bench of the LHC consisting of Justice Ameenuddin Khan, while hearing the petition, declared it as non-maintainable. The petitioner had made President Dr Arif Alvi and Prime Minister […]