Month: March 2018

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday removed Farooq Sattar as the convener of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), approving the petitions filed by a rival faction of his party against his election to the post. A five-member bench headed by the chief election commissioner also rejected Sattar’s application challenging the commission’s jurisdictionto hear petitions involving internal matters of the party. Accepting the petitions filed by MQM-Bahadurabad — the faction rival to Sattar-led PIB group — leaders Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and Kanwar Naveed Jameel, the ECP nullified the intra-party elections held…

The Supreme Court on Monday asked senior lawyers to help decide whether the lawyer’s licence of PML-N loyalist Nehal Hashmi should be cancelled over his fresh outburst against the judiciary. Hashmi, a former PML-N senator, was issued a second contempt of court notice by the SC and a first information report (FIR) was registered against him on court orders for his speech on February 28 targeting the judiciary. Hashmi made the speech after his release from Adiala Jail following a one-month prison sentence for contempt of court. At the outset of…

Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal appeared before the Supreme Court on Monday for the hearing of a suo motu case regarding overseas Pakistanis being charged an extra amount as an issuance fee for Pakistan Origin Cards (POC). “Are you angry at coming to the Supreme Court?” Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar asked the minister who responded in the negative. Iqbal then put forward his own request for the court to look into the delay in construction of a school in Narowal on the orders of a high court judge. The CJP…

Chairman Kashmir Council EU Mr Ali Raza Syed has said, there are many challenges in the context of a successful move on Kashmir issue in Europe and for that there is need of an effective strategy on the issue. While talking to media persons at Press Club Mirpure, Azad Kashmir, Ali Raza Syed added, We do our best to realize the Europeans about real facts on Kashmir dispute. Chairman Kashmir Council EU visited the Press Club in order to congratulate the newly elected office bearers of the club. New President…

Brussels, Belgium / Mirpure, AJK (PR, 25 March 2018) Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan met Chairman Kashmir Council Europe (EU), Mr Ali Raza Syed at his residence in Mirpure, Azad Kashmir. During the meeting, struggle on Kashmir in Europe, specially efforts rendered by Kashmir Council EU and as well as situation in Indian Held Kashmir came under discussion. Earlier, the Prime Minister was warmly welcomed on his arrival at the residence of Mr Ali Raza Syed. On the occasion, both sides expressed serious concerns over the severe…