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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday restrained Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court (PHC) Waqar Ahmed Seth from hearing a case relating to terms and conditions of services of contract employees in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Workers’ Welfare Board. Headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed, the Supreme Court…

ISLAMABAD: Citing threats to his family, the father of Mashal Khan — a university student who was lynched over trumped-up blasphemy charges — asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to transfer the trial of his son’s murder from Mardan to Islamabad. “It has become difficult for Mashal’s sisters to pursue…

ISLAMABAD: With a petition against the suspension of ARY News’ licence already pending before the Sindh High Court (SHC), an identical petition was filed in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday. The petition filed by the president of the ARY’s employees union, Jahangir Aslam Baloch, through his counsel Khawaja…

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) Wednesday restrained the bench number 1 of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) from hearing the Worker Welfare Board’s plea seeking constitution of a larger bench. Hearing the case, a two-member bench of the apex court — comprising Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Ijaz ul…

ISLAMABAD, June 22 The Islamabad High Court has summoned former president Pervez Musharraf and former prime minister Shaukat Aziz on a suit for damages filed by a former ISI operative. Advocate Khawaja Azhar Rasheed told Dawn that Justice Mohammad Munir Paracha of the IHC on Monday directed Gen (retd) Musharraf,…

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that instead of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) it will decide Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa contract employees’ case for regularization. A three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed, heard the chairman KP Workers WelfThe Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that instead of the Peshawar High Court…

ISLAMABAD:Mashal Khan’s father moved an application in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, seeking directives for the government to relocate his family to Islamabad in view of alleged security threats to him and his daughters in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, particularly in his hometown Swabi.Muhammad Iqbal Khan has, through his counsel Khawaja Azhar Rasheed,…