By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday approved hiring of World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) to provide transaction support as the country initiated a process to outsource operations at three major airports on a public private partnership.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Senate on Thursday approved a set of legislation that limits some key powers of the Supreme Court’s chief justice regarding suo motu cases and the constitution of benches.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: President Arif Alvi on Wednesday admitted that there was some need to streamline Supreme Court’s internal matters but he also questioned the timing of the bill government moved to curb the power of the Chief Justice on suo moto notices, a television channel reported.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The European Union has removed Pakistan from its ‘list of high-risk third countries’, a move welcomed by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif as a major development that would facilitate the country’s businesses.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Wednesday adopted a bill aimed at curtailing the discretionary powers of the chief justice, preventing him from taking suo motu notices in an individual capacity on issues of fundamental rights and constitute benches for various cases.
By Naveed Naqvi
ISLAMABAD: The coalition government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday introduced a bill in Parliament to curtail the discretionary powers of the chief justice to form a bench of his choice or to take suo motu notices.
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ISLAMABAD: Two senior judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan challenged the chief justice’s power to form a bench or take suo motu notices, media reported.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday hit back at President Arif Alvi, accusing him of being partisan toward the coalition government and following dictates of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, instead of a neutral head of the state.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: President Arif Alvi on Friday emphasised the need to assist the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in holding general elections in Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa within the required timeframe.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund on Thursday told crisis-hit Pakistan not to involve the Fund in domestic electoral politics, saying a decision to hold or not hold elections “rests solely with Pakistan’s institutions”.
