Yousaf Katpar

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court threw out the bail petition of former local government secretary in a corruption case involving more than Rs 200 million. Ali Ahmed Lunda is facing corruption charges of illegally accumulating moveable and immoveable assets estimated to be over Rs 200 million. A two-judge bench headed by Justice Ahmed Ali M […]

KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government will have to wait for some more time to appoint Sindh police chief of its own choice as the Sindh High Court on Thursday extended its stay order reversing the government’s notification that removed Inspector General of Police AD Khawaja and appointed additional IG Sardar Abdul Majeed Dasti […]

  KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has issued notices to Sindh police chief, SSP Malir Rao Anwar and other official respondents to submit their response to a petition of former SSP Niaz Khoso seeking recovery of his son said to be illegally confined by Rao Anwar. Niaz Khoso has taken SSP Rao to the court […]

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday granted interim pre-arrest bail to former National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) president in a Rs17 billion corruption case. A two-judge bench, headed by Justice Salahuddin Panhwar, approved the bail for Syed Ali Raza against Rs500,000 surety bonds. It adjourned the hearing till April 20 for confirmation of […]

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court suspended the Sindh government’s notification to hand over Bagh Ibne Qasim to Bahria Town for ten years till further orders. A two-member bench headed by Justice Muhammad Junaid Ahmed Ghaffar issued notices to the respondents – the Sindh chief secretary, local government secretary, Bahria Town and others to submit their […]

KARACHI: The Sindh government’s decision to hand over Bagh Ibne Qasim to Bahria Town for ten years does not seem to be going down well with the stakeholders as after the Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s protest, Pakistan Tehreek Insaf has gone to the Sindh High Court against the decision. Aggrieved at the decision PTI’s leader Imran […]

KARACHI: Police have shut their eyes regarding the problem of citizens going missing under their nose as the federally administered agencies take actions without taking the local police in the loop. These observations were made by a two-judge bench headed by Justice Muhammad Farooq Shah while hearing missing persons cases. “We cannot shut our eyes […]

KARACHI: Dr Asim Hussain, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader and close aide of former president Asif Ali Zardari, is expected to be released from jail today as the Sindh High Court approved bail for him in two more cases on Wednesday. Justice Aftab Ahmed Gorar, the referee judge appointed to decide the bail plea of […]

KARACHI: The report of the judicial commission set up to inquire into shortage of potable water and poor sanitation conditions in the Sindh province is a charge-sheet against the working of various departments of the Sindh government. This was observed in a 64-page long verdict issued by the Supreme Court on Friday in a case […]