Posts tagged as: Peshawar High Court

Peshawar High Court terms US drone strikes against UN charter

The Peshawar High Court on Thursday described the American drone strikes in the country’s restive tribal regions as illegal and inhuman and instructed the Foreign Ministry to move a resolution in the United Nations against the attacks.   The court issued the landmark verdict against the American strikes on four writ petitions, who had stated […]

Musharraf gets life term ban on contesting elections

Te Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday declared former president Pervez Musharraf ineligible for ever to contest elections.   The four-member larger bench of the Peshawar High Court (PHC), headed by the Chief Justice of PHC, also dismissed the former military ruler’s appeal against his disqualification from the elections on Tuesday.   Musharraf’s nomination papers […]

Lawyers boycott against attack on Peshawar judicial complex

Lawyers across Pakistan Tuesday boycotted courts’ proceedings against the yesterday’s audacious suicide attack on judicial complex in Peshawar.   At least four people were killed and nearly 30 others were injured in the Monday’s attack.   Two armed bombers sneaked into the complex in high security zone and started indiscriminate firing and later exploded their […]

Justice ® Tariq Pervez nominated KPK’s caretaker CM

The government and the opposition in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Friday announced that Justice (retd) Tariq Pervez Khan, a former judge of the Supreme Court, as the caretaker chief minister.   Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti and leader of the Opposition in provincial assembly, Akram Khan Durrani, made the announcement at a joint press conference in […]

Airblue Crash; after two years

After passage of two years, the families of the victim of the Airblue crash have yet to be informed an appropriate reason of the incident. The torment and the agony of suspense as to what was the reality still continue. Time doesn’t matter even after passage of two years but knowing what caused the crash […]

Judiciary is performing duties purely within constitutional sphere; Chief Justice

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said the judiciary held a position parallel to that of the legislature and of the executive, asserting the judiciary was performing functions purely within its constitutional sphere. Addressing a full-court reference on the occasion of Justice Shakirullah Jan’s retirement, he said interpretation of laws was the judiciary’s responsibility while […]

Woman judge appoints in Peshawar High Court after almost two decades

Justice Irshad Qaisar, a women judge, was appointed as an additional judge at the Peshawar High Court (PHC) after a gap of 18 years. Apart from her, three other additional judges took oath on the other day, taking the number of PHC judges from nine to thirteen. Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan took the oath […]

Peshawar High Court includes ATA in Alamzeb murder case

Peshawar High Court includes ATA in Alamzeb murder case Peshawar: (Friday, December 30, 2011), While persuading with murder case of Alamzeb, the brother of alleged rape victim Uzma Ayub, the Peshawar High Court (PHC) yesterday included Section 7 of Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA). While doing so, the court rejected the findings of the report by Deputy […]

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