Tag: Supreme Judicial Council
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Former DG ISI Faiz Hameed denies meeting former judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui
Lieutenant General (retd) Faiz Hameed, former director general of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), has firmly denied allegations of him meeting former Islamabad High Court judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui and manipulating the judicial proceedings related to the Panama Papers case, Geo has reported. General Hameed labeled the accusations as “absolutely false, frivolous, concocted, and based on an…
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Supreme Court issues notice to ex-DG ISI Faiz Hameed in Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui plea
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notices to former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) director-general Faiz Hameed and others on former Islamabad High Court (IHC) judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui’s petition challenging his removal. The notices were also issued to former IHC chief justice Anwar Khan Kasi, former registrar of the Supreme Court Arbab Muhammad Arif, and retired…
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Live proceedings of case against dismissal of ex-judge Shaukat Siddiqui
The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday resumed the hearing of a plea filed by former Islamabad High Court (IHC) judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui and ordered him to nominate former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief General Faiz Hamid and others in the plea against his dismissal. 🚨🚨#BREAKING: Supreme Court will live broadcast former IHC judge #JusticeShaukatAzizSiddiqui petition…
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Supreme Judicial Council issues show-cause notice to Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi
The Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) has formally issued a show-cause notice to Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi of the Supreme Court to explain his stance in response to complaints against him, Geo News reported on Friday. The notice was issued after a meeting of SJC, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi…
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‘Your talking to me has placed me in a most embarrassing position’, Former CJ Bandial slammed
Former Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial, before his retirement earlier this month, had a telephonic conversation with Justice Sardar Tariq Masood to discuss a matter of complaints against fellow judges of the apex court, as per The News. As per the sources of Geo’s senior reporter Abdul Qayyum Siddiqui, Justice Masood received…
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Authority to remove NAB chairman taken back from SJC, given to president
The power to remove the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman from office has been withdrawn from the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) and given to the president, as per the National Accountability (Third Amendment) Ordinance, 2021, which has been approved by President Arif Alvi, reports Geo News. The NAB chairman’s tenure, as per the new ordinance,…
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Justice Qazi Faez Isa receiving death threats, wife tells police; CJP takes notice
The wife of Supreme Court’s (SC) Justice Qazi Faez Isa, Sarina Isa, has informed the police that her husband has received a death threat via a video, prompting Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed to take suo motu notice. In an application seeking the registration of an FIR [First Information Report] at Islamabad’s Secretariat…
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Justice Qazi Faez Isa strikes back with ‘Imran, others’ properties in UK’
Supreme Court’s (SC) Justice Qazi Faez Isa, who is facing a presidential reference for not disclosing his family’s assets, on Tuesday put the federal government in a tight spot before a full bench of the apex court by pointing out key leaders of the ruling party who also owned properties in the United Kingdom (UK),…
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‘Alvi, Imran ready to face consequences if SC quashes reference against Justice Isa’
The government’s counsel has told the Supreme Court (SC) that the President Arif Alvi and Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan were ready to face the consequences if the presidential reference against SC’s Justice Qazi Faez Isa was quashed. Dr Farogh Naseem, former law minister and currently the government’s counsel in the case against Justice Isa, submitted…