A dispute among the Pakistani judiciary worsened on Monday as more than 1,300 civil judges resigned in protest over the treatment of judges by lawyers and to express solidarity with Lahore District and Sessions Judge Zawar A Sheikh. The...
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Pakistan high court orders government to reopen corruption cases
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday threatened to imprison the head of the country's corruption agency for failing to meet a 24-hour deadline to reopen several corruption cases. Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry [official profile; JURIST...
Pakistan president appoints justices selected by Supreme Court
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday appointed 34 new judges , including three to the country's Supreme Court , after Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry blocked Zardari's original selections....
JURIST Guest Columnists Moeen Cheema of Australian National University College of Law and Shahzad Akbar, an advocate practicing at the Lahore High Court in Pakistan, say that since Pakistan President's Zardari's refusal to appoint judges to the Lahore High Court...
Pakistan Supreme Court challenges president's judicial appointments
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Saturday deferred the appointment of two judges by President Asif Ali Zardari in an emergency ruling which has once again pitched the country's judiciary against its...
Pakistan high court releases detailed judgment on presidential amnesty order
The Supreme Court of Pakistan released its detailed judgment regarding the controversial National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) on Wednesday. The ordinance granted President Asif Ali Zardari and 8,000 other government officials immunity from...
Back to the Future: The Pakistan Supreme Court's NRO Judgment
JURIST Guest Columnist Moeen Cheema, Associate Lecturer at the Australian National University College of Law, says that the Pakistan Supreme Court's December ruling in the NRO case reopens a long-running clash between the country's executive and the judiciary, a conflict...
Pakistan high court releases judgment on reinstatement of ousted chief justice
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday released the detailed judgment on the July 2007 decision to reinstate Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry . The July 2007 ruling came in response to the suspension...
Pakistan court issues arrest warrant for interior minister after amnesty struck down
A Pakistani court on Friday issued an arrest warrant for Interior Minister Rehman Malik on corruption charges, following Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling striking down an amnesty order . The Supreme Court ruled ...
Pakistan high court issues detailed judgment declaring emergency rule unlawful
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday released a detailed judgment to accompany a July declaration that former president Pervez Musharraf violated the Constitution of Pakistan...