Sacked LHC judge says independent judiciary only solution to problems facing nation
LAHORE: The lawyers’ struggle is not merely for the reinstatement of sacked judges, but to ensure the establishment of an independent judiciary, MA Shahid Siddiqi, a former judge of the Lahore High Court, said on Thursday. Addressing a general house meeting of the Lahore [...]
“The people of Swat did not demand construction of any road or establishment of any factory but they took to streets for speedy justice,” he said and added only an ideal judicial system can restore peace to the troubled areas.
Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was addressing the All Pakistan Lawyers Convention held on the premises of the [...]
These were just two of the issues discussed by hundreds of Muslim women who gathered in Malaysia to launch a new global campaign for equality. Reform of family law is at the heart of the campaign, to tackle what organisers called the “untenable” treatment of some Islamic women. Polygamy, consent to marry, inheritance rights, custody [...]
Those expected to be elevated to the Supreme Court are Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Sardar Mohammad Aslam, who will be retiring as IHC chief justice on March 8; Sindh High Court Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, who as a high court judge will retire on December 2013; Lahore High Court Chief Justice Sayed Zahid [...]
