Yousaf Katpar

KARACHI: As street crime continues unabated with citizens being deprived of their valuables, a victim of street crime has gone to the Sindh High Court seeking directives for Sindh police to efficiently control crime in the city streets. Advocate Muzamil Mamtaz has petitioned the high court, submitting that there has been significant increase in street […]

KARACHI: The administrative judge of anti-terrorism courts (ATCs) on Saturday has remanded Pakistan Peoples Party ‘s late chairperson Benazir Bhutto’s cousin and former advisor, Mushtaq Bhutto to judicial custody in explosives and illicit weapons cases. Gulshan-e-Iqbal Police produced Mushtaq before the judge, informing him that he was arrested on July 19 for possessing a pistol […]

KARACHI: A division bench of the Sindh High Court has declined to hear the bail petition of Zubair alias Charya, one of key the suspects in the Baldia factory inferno case. Headed by Justice Farooq Shah, a division bench referred the matter to SHC Chief Justice to fix the same before another bench. Zubair had […]

KARACHI: A local court has issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leaders, including its chief Dr Farooq Sattar, in a case pertaining to a demonstration outside the Chief Minister’s House. The court issued non-bailable arrest warrants over the perpetual failure of the MQM-P leaders to turn up before it and […]

KARACHI: The Supreme Court appointed commission of the inquiry into water and sanitation woes was informed on Saturday that 90 percent of drinking water provided to residents of the city was not fit for consumption and could be hazardous to human health. Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) told the commission, headed by […]

KARACHI: The Sindh Bar Councils warned on Friday that if Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif did not step down in the wake of the Panama Joint Investigation Team (JIT)’s report it would launch a protest campaign to press for their demand. An emergency meeting of the executive committee of the Sindh Bar Council was called to […]

KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court has granted interim bail to former Pakistan Muslim League-N loyalist Nehal Hashmi in a case related to his incendiary and threatening speech targeting the judges of the Supreme Court and the Panama Joint Investigation Team (JIT). The judge approved bail for Senator Hashmi against a surety of Rs 200,000 and adjourned […]

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has summoned the investigation officer of Baldia factory inferno case along with record of the case in a bail petition field by Zubair alias Charya, one of key the suspects in the case. A division bench of the high court directed the prosecution and defense side to come prepared to […]

KARACHI: Expressing extreme displeasure over the relevant authorities on poor conditions of sanitation across the province, the Sindh High Court has once again directed them to explain their failure. A division bench headed by Justice Munib Akhtar said it would hear the case on day-to-day basis. The court was hearing the petition filed by Karachi’s […]

KARACHI: As untreated effluent of the metropolis continues to pollute the sea, the authorities have been dragging their feet to make the treatment plants operational. Even after the passage of the three mon ths since the water commission report to the Sindh government has failed to make the key treatment plants in the city operational. […]