Pakistan Supreme Court updates

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SC allows 2-month time to KP crusher plants to meet rules


The Frontier Post
September 18, 2020

ISLAMABAD (APP): The Supreme Court on Thursday accepted the petition, seeking installation of power crushers plant in Kh-uber Pakhtoonkhwa (KP) for hearing and accorded two-month time to the plants to meet the necessary rules and standards.

A two-member bench of the apex court, comprising Justice Umar Ata Bandial and Justice Munib Akhtar, heard the case and issued notices to the respondents.

During the course of proceedings, the court observed that serious points of environmental pollution had been raised in the Suraj Gali area of KP.

The bench also observed that new amendments to the rules were made without data or research. The decision of the High Court was also accurate and the grounds were appropriate, it added.


The Advocate General KP said that the first power crusher plants were regulated in 1995. Plants could not be installed to one kilometer from schools, colleges, hospitals, canals, sensitive areas and human populations, he added. He said that the impact of crushers on the environment was also taken into account. There were three points to consider when installing power crushers, he added. He said that by law, noise pollution must be up to 55 decibels and vibration of plants should not exceed 3.5 mm per second.

The effects of environmental pollution were reviewed in the third point, he added. He said that according to the new law, a limit of 500 meters had been fixed in the urban area while in the rural area, permission was given to install plants after 300 meters.

He said that the KP government formed a cabinet committee to review the distances of the crushers in 2017. The committee proposed a boundary of 500 meters for the urban area and 300 meters for the rural area, he added. He said that no plant could be set up without the permission of the gas pipeline company and the archeology department. He said that the Peshawar High Court annulled new amendments.

Justice Munib Akhtar said that the new rules did not define canals, cemeteries, roads, sensitive areas, pipelines and others. The counsel replied that dictionary meanings would be taken for all these.
He said that the purpose of keeping a distance of 300 and 500 meters was only to protect the environment from damage.

Justice Umar Ata Bandial said that according to the Environmental Protection Agency, residents could have respiratory ailments.

The counsel said that all environment related complaints had been forwarded to the Environmental Tribunal. He said that the high court annulled the rules without considering the quality of the rules.
Justice Munib Akhtar said that the PHC pointed out that these rules were unfair and the rights of local people were being affected. If the high court was saying this, then what could the Supreme Court do, he asked.

The counsel said that KP Environmental Act meant for environmental issues.
Justice Munib Akhtar said that if the environmental agency fixed two kilometres distance and the rules allowed five hundred meters distance, it would overlap. The high court had stated that old rules were fine, he added.


The counsel said that the provisional government had stopped the crushers from working who were not following guidelines.
Later, hearing of the case was adjourned till date in office.

 

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SC stays release of Daniel Pearl murder accused for a week
Notices issued to all respondents after court grants Pearls' parents, Sindh govt leave to appeal


Hasnaat MalikSeptember 28, 2020

Slain American journalist Daniel Pearl.


ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) restrained concerned Sindh authorities on Monday from releasing Daniel Pearl murder accused for one week.

The Sindh High Court (SHC), on April 2, had commuted the death sentence of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh – convicted for kidnapping and murdering Pearl in 2002 – to seven years, and acquitted three others who were serving life terms in the case – almost two decades after they were found guilty and jailed.

The detention period of the accused will end on September 30.

The three-member judge bench of the apex court led by Justice Mushir Alam while granting Sindh government and Pearl’s parents' petitions leave to appeal against the SHC judgment issued notices to all the respondents in acquittal pleas.

During the proceedings, the counsel for Pearl's parents, Faisal Siddiqui, argued that accused Omar Sheikh wrote a letter to the SHC Registrar, but the high court ignored his confession in the letter, he said.

"All the parties, in this case, have filed an appeal against the decision of the high court,” Siddiqui pleaded. “We want the trial court's decision to be reinstated. Evidence suggests the abduction was for ransom. The court's query regarding the element of conspiracy is correct,” the counsel stated.

He said that the confessional statements of the two accused prove the murder to be a conspiracy. The statements are self-explanatory, he added.

Earlier, speaking to Sindh government's counsel, Farooq H Naek, member of the apex court bench Justice Qazi Amin asked whether he would ask for the sentences to be suspended if the court submits the appeals for a preliminary hearing.

“I will request for the Sindh High Court's decision to be suspended,” Naek replied.

Justice Amin suggested putting Sheikh’s name on the Exit Control List (ECL) as well as Schedule-B, that would bind him to appear before the court.

Allowing the appeals challenging the SHC's decision for a preliminary hearing, the court adjourned the hearing for a week.

In August, the SHC had dismissed a petition challenging the extended detention of the men accused of kidnapping and murdering the Wall Street Journal journalist, terming it inadmissible.

The petition, filed in the SHC, sought to declare the notification issued on April 2 on the second extension of the detention of the men acquitted in the 2002 kidnapping and murder null and void.
The accused have been detained under Section 11 EEEE (preventive detention for inquiry) of the Anti-Terrorism Act.

The first notification was issued the day the men were acquitted and the second one three months after they completed their detention period.


Pearl’s murder

Pearl, 38, was the South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal when he was abducted in Karachi in January 2002 while researching links between militants in Pakistan and Richard C Reid - also known as the ‘shoe bomber’ for trying to detonate a shoe bomb while on a flight from Paris to Miami in 2001.

Pearl’s wife Mariane Pearl, a US national who was living in Karachi’s Zamzama area, wrote a letter to the Artillery Maidan police on February 2, 2002, stating that her husband disappeared on January 23, 2002.
She said she received an email from the abductors, saying that he has been abducted in retaliation for the imprisonment of Pakistani men by the US government in Cuba and other complaints.
A graphic video showing Pearl’s decapitation was delivered to the US consulate in Karachi nearly a month after he was kidnapped.
After this, a case was filed against the suspects and 23 witnesses were produced in the case by the prosecution. Sheikh was arrested in February 2002.
An investigation, led by Pearl’s friend and former Wall Street Journal colleague Asra Nomani and a Georgetown University professor, claimed that the reporter was murdered by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks, not Omar Sheikh.
Mohammed — better known as KSM — was arrested in Pakistan in 2003 and is being held at Guantanamo Bay.
On April 2, 2020, the SHC heard their appeals against the sentence after 18 years and acquitted Sheikh, Saqib and Naseem. It commuted Sheikh’s death sentence to seven years and fined him Rs2 million.
Sheikh has already spent 18 years in prison on death row and his seven-year sentence for kidnapping was counted as time served.
Pearl’s parents and the Sindh government, however, filed appeals against the Sindh High Court’s order. On June 29, the Supreme Court dismissed the Sindh’s government appeal, asking for a stay order in the SHC verdict in the Daniel Pearl murder case.

 

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SC acquits accused on benefit of doubt

The high court commuted the death sentence into life imprisonment

APP
October 08, 2020

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday acquitted a life sentence of a convict giving him the benefit of doubt. The trial court awarded capital punishment to accused Tanveer over murder of his brother Asif and sister-in law Shumaila Bibi in Chakwal area in 2011. The high court commuted the death sentence into life imprisonment.

A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Manzoor Ahmed Malik and comprised Justice Sardar Tariq Masood and Justice Mazahar Alam Khan Miankhel, heard the case. During the course of proceedings, state counsel Abid Majeed said no one was following Shumaila Bibi’s murder case.

According to the first information report, there was an illicit relationship between the accused’s sister-in-law and Asif Mahmood, he added. He said Shumaila Bibi’s husband was abroad. The apex court acquitted the accused giving him the benefit of doubt.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 8th, 2020.

 

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SC acquits accused on benefit of doubt

The high court commuted the death sentence into life imprisonment


APP
October 08, 2020

ISLAMABAD:The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday acquitted a life sentence of a convict giving him the benefit of doubt. The trial court awarded capital punishment to accused Tanveer over murder of his brother Asif and sister-in law Shumaila Bibi in Chakwal area in 2011.

The high court commuted the death sentence into life imprisonment. A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Manzoor Ahmed Malik and comprised Justice Sardar Tariq Masood and Justice Mazahar Alam Khan Miankhel, heard the case. During the course of proceedings, state counsel Abid Majeed said no one was following Shumaila Bibi’s murder case.

According to the first information report, there was an illicit relationship between the accused’s sister-in-law and Asif Mahmood, he added. He said Shumaila Bibi’s husband was abroad. The apex court acquitted the accused giving him the benefit of doubt.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 8th, 2020.

 

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FGEHA land acquisition verdict due today

SC to decide case of land acquisition from locals on cheaper rates


Hasnaat Malik
October 08, 2020


ISLAMABAD: After a passage of eight months, the Supreme Court will announce the long-awaited judgment on acquisition of land by the Federal Government Employees Housing Authority (FGEHA) in sectors F-14 and F-15 from locals on cheaper rates.

In 2017, the Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) incumbent Chief Justice Athar Minallah had decided the petitions filed by the locals against the acquisition of their land by FGEHA and asked the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to take over the development of housing schemes in the areas and to judiciously dispense the plots after developing the two sectors.

The high court had also scrapped a federal government housing scheme in sectors F-14 and F-15 of the federal capital. Judges, powerful bureaucrats, influential lawyers and journalists were amongst the beneficiaries of the scheme.

Later, a division bench of the IHC dismissed appeal filed by FGEHA against the verdict.

The matter was then taken up by the Supreme Court as former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar allowed an appeal against the high court division bench’s order and suspended the high court's rulings.
However, as many as six judges of the top court recused themselves from hearing the case for different reasons. Of the six judges, at least three judges preferred not to adjudicate on the matter as they had applied for plots in the scheme.
According to the FGEHA’s list of applicants and allottees, available on its website, seven of the serving judges of the apex court had applied for plots in the scheme.

A four-judge special bench, led by Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Umar Ata Bandial while comprising Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Ijazul Ahsan reserved judgment on January 14.

Hassan Mann Advocate, who pleaded this matter on behalf of affectees of land acquisition at the IHC, said the real issue is that the land is being acquired for benefit of a privileged class. However, this land could fetch more than Rs500 billion to exchequer, if auctioned on commercial basis.

He said: “This is a case concerning public revenue. Instead of generating revenue for public exchequer, the FGEHA is usurping the sovereign privilege of eminent domain to line the pockets of its members.”

The beneficiaries of FGEHA scheme are serving or retired officers and employees of federal ministries, divisions, attached departments… judges of the superior courts – the SC, all high courts, Azad Kashmir Supreme Court and the Chief Court and the Supreme Appellate Court of Gilgit-Baltistan and the Federal Shariat Court, he said.

The advocate continued that the beneficiaries also include serving and retired employees of autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies, public sector corporations under the control of federal government, journalists, media workers, lawyers, employees of housing authority, Ministry of Housing and Works and constitutional bodies.

 

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SC upholds high court verdict in land case

The Frontier Post
October 15, 2020
F.P. Report


ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by Abdul Haye regarding transfer of 57 kanal land to his name.

A two-member bench of the apex court comprising Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Amin-Ud-Din Khan heard the case.

During the course of proceedings, Justice Qazi Faez Isa expressed his concerns over the non-serious behaviour of the people regarding the sisters share in the property as per Sharia.

He said he had never heard of a brother giving his sister a gift of land and brothers were getting double share in the property.

Advocate Rafaqat Hussain Shah, counsel for the petitioner, said the Tehsildar himself had stated that the woman had appeared before him to record her statement for the transfer of land.

Justice Qazi Faez Isa said the land was transferred nine years ago and how did the Tehsildar remember the incident?

He asked the counsel if the Tehsildar did 10 to 20 cases a day, how could he remember the woman that she was the same one.

The court dismissed the petition relating to the land transfer dispute. In Telangana in 1996, the sister gifted her 57 kanals of land to her only brother after the death of her father. The civil court ruled the gift was legal. The district court had quashed the decision of the civil court.

The high court upheld the decision of the district court.

The supreme court also upheld the decision of the high court and dismissed the petition.

 

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SC to take up petition against SHC appointments


Three-judge special bench to hear two constitutional petitions on Monday

Hasnaat Malik
October 17, 2020


ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed has constituted a special bench to hear constitutional petitions, requesting the court to revoke all appointments made in the Sindh High Court (SHC) and the district judiciary in the province since 2017.

The three-judge special bench – comprising Justice Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Ijazul Ahsan and Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel – will take up two constitutional petitions on Monday.

The first petitioner, Ghulam Sarwar Qureshi Advocate, pleaded that under Article 184(3) of the Constitution, the apex court should form a joint investigation team comprising senior judges of the SHC to investigate the appointments made since 2017.

The petitioner asked the court to seek the record of all appointments from the SHC registrar, the SHC chief justice and the government of Sindh.

He also requested the court to issue an order for the de-notification of all appointments and to conduct an inquiry against the SHC chief justice, registrar and judges of district courts for violating the law.

The petition sought the court’s directions to restrain the SHC chief justice from making appointments until the case was decided. The SHC chief justice, the SHC registrar, the Sindh government as well as the federal governments were nominated as respondents in the application.

The Sindh Bar Council (SBC) has recently filed a petition challenging the elevation of three judges of the Lahore High Court (LHC) to the apex court. Earlier, the bar council had raised serious questions about “out-of-turn elevation” of judges to the Supreme Court.

 

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SC accepts NAB appeal for filing reference against KP govt employee


The Frontier Post
October 19, 2020


ISLAMABAD (APP): The Supreme Court on Monday accepted the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) appeal against Peshawar High Court’s verdict about filing of more than one reference against a government employee.

A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandial and comprising Justice Yahya Afridi and Justice Sajjad Ali Shah heard the case.

During the course of proceedings, Justice Sajjad Ali Shah asked how could more than one reference be filed against an officer? The NAB made three references to the steps taken in one year, he added.

He said that the NAB filed another reference when bail was granted two years later.

The NAB prosecutor said that the law did not prohibit filing of second reference.

Justice Sajjad Ali Shah said that the Peshawar High Court ruled that there should not be no new reference.
Justice Yahya Afridi asked did the NAB also issue warrants against accused on every reference?


Justice Sajjad Ali Shah said that the NAB filed three references on three different steps.

Justice Bandial said that the NAB should ensure that the authority to file a reference was not misused.

Later hearing of the case was adjourned till date in office. The NAB had filed three references against 25 accused, including DG of PDA, on corruption charges.

 

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SC acquits murder accused after 14 years


The Frontier Post
November 30, 2020


ISLAMABAD (APP): The Supreme Court on Monday acquitted murder accused Khadim Hussain giving him benefit of doubt.

A trial court awarded capital punishment to Khadim Hussain over kidnapping, raping and killing a 10-year-old boy Mudassar Azam. The Shariat Court also maintained the trial court verdict. Mudassar Azam, a 10-year-old boy, was abducted in 2006 in the Bani area of Rawalpindi and his dead body was recovered from Golra police station area of Islamabad.

A five-member Shariat Appellate Bench of the apex court headed by Justice Mushir Alam and comprising Justice Qazi Faez Isa, Justice Sardar Tariq Masood, Dr Muhammad Al-Ghazali Ad-hoc member-I and Dr Muhammad Khalid Masood Ad-hoc member-II heard the case.

During the course of proceedings, Advocate Akram Gondal counsel for the accused said that his client was not nominated in the First Information Report (FIR).

He said that evidence was made against his client after his arrest.

The Supreme Court acquitted the accused due to lack of evidence as prosecution failed to prove the case.

 

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Supreme Court seeks a report on petrol pumps established on state land


The Frontier Post
December 2, 2020


ISLAMABAD (APP): The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Chairman National Highway Authority (NHA) to submit a concise report over establishment of petrol pumps on the government land.
A two-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed and comprising Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan heard the case pertaining to leasing of state land for establishment of petrol pumps.


During the course of proceedings, the court also sought copies of the lease and details of the received funds should be submitted within 4 weeks.


The court also sought explanation regarding the revenue received and spent by the NHA. The court also asked whether petrol pumps were leased to the NHA employees.

Salman counsel for NHA said that the NHA could lease land along highways. The NHA also has the authority to issue licenses for setting up petrol pumps, he added.
Justice Ijaz said if all the authority was with the NHA, then what was the use of provincial government ownership?

The Additional Advocate General Punjab said that the Punjab government had withdrawn lease of land authority from NHA.

The Chief Justice said that there were several petrol pumps with each other in Karachi and Hyderabad. The NHA was violating the rules for setting up petrol pumps, he added. He said that petrol pumps could be leased to NHA employees or relatives.

Later, hearing of the case was adjourned for four weeks

 

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SC adjourns bail plea of accused allegedly involved in corruption


The Frontier Post
December 15, 2020


ISLAMABAD (APP): The Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned hearing of a bail plea filed by former Secretary Union Council Rawat Javed Chaudhary till after winter vacations.

A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice Mushir Alam and comprising Justice Sardar Tariq Masood and Justice Yahya Afridi heard the bail plea.

During the course of proceedings, Advocate Shah Khawar, counsel for the accused said that his client was in jail for last 18 months while the Assistant Commissioner was moving freely.

He said no co-accused was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for being a government official.

He pleaded before the court to grant bail to his client.

Justice Mushir Alam said that the trial had begun and witnesses were being called.

The NAB prosecutor said delay in indictment and witnesses was due to the accused.

Shah Khawar said that the convicts were living in the same flats that were ordered to be confiscated.

Justice Mushir Alam said that the court would review progress of the trial after winter holidays. If there was no progress, the court would consider granting bail to the accused, he added.

 

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SC to hear presidential reference on Senate polls on Monday

The Frontier Post /
December 29, 2020



ISLAMABAD (TLTP): The presidential reference seeking guidance on holding the upcoming Senate polls through show of hand will be heard by the Supreme Court on January 4 (Monday).

A five-judge larger ben-ch, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed and comprising Justice Mushir Alam, Justice Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Ijaz ul Ahsan and Justice Yahya Afridi, will take up the reference, the SC said on Tuesday.

 

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SC wants plea maintainability addressed in Senate polls:

Nasir Iqbal
05 Jan 2021

The maintainability of the presidential reference seeking an opinion on “open ballot” for the Senate elections came into question on Monday when Justice Yahya Afridi of the Supreme Court wondered why the court should jump into the controversy. — Photo courtesy SC website



ISLAMABAD: The maintainability of the presidential reference seeking an opinion on “open ballot” for the Senate elections came into question on Monday when Justice Yahya Afridi of the Supreme Court wondered why the court should jump into the controversy.

“There is a question of maintainability. Why should the Supreme Court enter into the controversy when it should be kept away instead of dragging it into the political arena,” observed Justice Afridi, a member of the five-judge bench hearing the reference through which President Dr Arif Alvi had sought an answer to a question whether the condition of secret ballot under Article 226 of the Constitution applies to the Senate elections or not.

Quetta lawyer Hadi Shakeel appointed to assist court in the matter

Attorney General (AG) Khalid Jawed Khan, however, recalled that the Supreme Court had already dealt with the maintainability issue at length while deciding the 2005 reference on the Hasba Bill instituted by the then government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The bench ordered issuing notices to the advocate generals of the four provinces and the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) as well as the National Assembly Speaker, the Senate Chairman, speakers of the four provincial assemblies and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).

The court appointed Hadi Shakeel, a lawyer from Quetta, as friend of the court to assist it in the matter.

It ordered publication of notices in newspapers for general information and to solicit opinion of individuals interested in giving their viewpoint.

The court asked the AGP and the four advocate generals to submit their written synopses when hearing resumes on Jan 11.

The reference was filed last month soon after the cabinet decided to hold elections for seats of the upper house which will fall vacant after the retirement of 52 members of the 104-member Senate on March 11.

The cabinet had decided on Dec 15 to hold Senate elections in February as well as to invoke advisory jurisdiction of the Supreme Court on open voting.

At the outset, Justice Ijaz-ul-Ahsan observed that the president was asking the court to distinguish between elections held under the constitution and those held under the electoral law. Except for the elections of the prime minister and the chief ministers, other elections were not held in accordance with the constitution, he added.

Justice Ahsan said parliament was empowered to amend any law if there was a recurring element of horse trading or floor crossing.

The attorney general explained that the government had moved a bill in the National Assembly, but observed that “judges always see things in a straight manner”. Development of consensus was a step subsequent to interpretation of the question which the government had put before the court, Mr Jawed added.

When Justice Ahsan observed that the court would like to see a parliamentary debate on the law that governs the Senate elections, the AGP replied that he had gone through the entire document but could not find any word about debate since the provision was added through the 18th amendment and was a part of Article 226 of the Constitution.

The government’s reference argued that the condition of secret ballot referred to in Article 226 was applicable to elections for the office of the president, speaker and deputy speaker of the National Assembly, chairman and deputy chairman of the Senate, speakers and deputy speakers of the provincial assemblies, but not to elections for senators as the process was governed not by the Constitution but by the Elections Act 2017.

At the fag end of the proceedings, Justice Yahya Afridi again reminded the AGP that he should address the maintainability issue of the reference in his synopsis to be placed before the court.

The reference emphasised that the requirement of secret ballot for Senate elections was not a constitutional provision. Instead, it was only a statutory provision — Section 122 (6) of the ’17 Elections Act. This can be amended by an act of parliament or through an ordinance under Article 89 of the Constitution.

The reference contended that open ballot would help ensure respect for the voter’s choice and desire, strengthen political parties by infusing them with discipline — a prerequisite for parliamentary democracy.

The reference explained that the question of open ballot for Senate elections had arisen because vote buying had damaged the sanctity of the exercise. Every Senate election since 1985 had set off questions about sanctity and genuineness, according to the reference.


Published in Dawn, January 5th, 2021

 

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SC orders functionality of 30 new accountability courts in a month

The Frontier Post
January 5, 2021


ISLAMABAD (APP): The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the federal government to make functional 30 new accountability courts within a month across the country.

A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed and comprising Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan and Justice Munib Akhtar while hearing a corruption case in Lakhra Power Plant took notice of the vacant post of a permanent law secretary and directed the federal government to make appointment on the position.

During the course of proceedings, the Chief Justice said that the Law Ministry could not be run on adhoc basis.

He also directed the government to make functional 30 new accountability courts and asked the reasons for delay.

The Additional Attorney General said that the finance ministry and the establishment division had given approval while the recruitment process for staff would commence from January 11.

Discussing the Lakhra power plant case, Syed Haider Asghar Prosecutor General NAB said that 18 witnesses out of 29 had recorded their statements in the case.

He said that the NAB would not record the statements of seven witnesses.

Out of 29 hearings in the Accountability Court so far, NAB had taken only one adjournment, he added.

He said that the accused repeatedly demanded adjournment.

The apex court directed the Accountability Court Karachi to decide the Lakhra Power Plant corruption case in this month.

The court sought progress reports from the NAB and the government and adjourned hearing till second week of February.

 

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SC raises question on motorways security following rise in rape cases

https://nation.com.pk/NewsSource/web-desk
Web Desk
January 05, 2021


Supreme Court (SC) has raised questions on Tuesday over the security condition on motorways following rise in rape cases.

As per details, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed has condemned the mishap of raping a Christian girl in front of her family on Lahore-Sheikhupura Motorway.

Moreover, the top judge has sought report from the Punjab government on the recently held two rape incidents on motorway.

Meanwhile, the court was also informed that Christian community in Lahore’s Khadim Colony was tortured for not allowing to capture pictures of their girls.