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Lawmakers in Pak's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa booked for attacking medics
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], May 5 (ANI): Police have booked two sitting lawmakers for storming Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) and attacking doctors and nurses there during protests that took place after a boy who sustained gun wounds died at the hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, recently,
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Pakistan PM Imran Khan blames vulgarity for rise in rape, sexual violence
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 5 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister has blamed "fahashi" (vulgarity) for rise in rape and sexual violence instead of the deteriorating law and order situation in the country.
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Balochistan court rules 'unsettled land' in favour of indigenous tribes
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 25 (ANI): The Balochistan High Court (BHC), in a landmark judgment, has declared that the 'unsettled land' of Pakistan's largest province belongs to the indigenous tribes and not the provincial government.
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Licenses of 21 lawyers suspended for ransacking Islamabad Judge's chamber
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 2 (ANI): The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday ordered the suspension of licenses of 21 lawyers for ransacking the chamber of Chief Justice Athar Minallah during a protest last month against the demolition of their alleged illegal chambers at the Islamabad Dis
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Desperate Pakistan government floods venue of PDM's December 13 rally
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], December 9 (ANI): In a "failed effort" to stop the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) -- an 11-party alliance -- from holding the sixth rally on December 13, the Prime Minister Imran Khan-led government has flooded the Minar-i-Pakistan lawns.
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COVID-19-infected lawyer attends Supreme Court hearing in Pakistan despite
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 25 (ANI): A lawyer suffering from COVID-19 recently appeared before the Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed in the courtroom of the Supreme Court as his earlier request for adjournment of the important case was not entertained.
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Facing flak for statement on Abhinandan's release, Pakistani lawmaker Ayaz
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 31 (ANI): Pakistan lawmaker Ayaz Sadiq, who faced criticism from Pakistan government and Army for revealing that Imran Khan-led govt had released Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman fearing an imminent attack from India, said he stands by his statement, adding t
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Female Pakistani lawyer tortured for giving speech against Army
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Aug 30 (ANI): A Pakistani female advocate, who recently delivered a speech critical of the country's armed forces, was abducted and tortured for days, before she was found by locals in a very bad condition in Mailsi of Punjab province earlier this month.
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Pakistan: Week after abduction by gunmen, law student returns home
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], Dec 08 (ANI): A 20-year law student, Dua Mangi, who was abducted by unknown men last week under suspicious circumstances from Karachi's Defence area, has returned home on Saturday, South Zone DIG Sharjeel Kharal's office confirmed.
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Pak Law Minister resigns to represent govt in Bajwa's tenure extension cas
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Nov 27 (ANI): Pakistan Law Minister Farogh Naseem resigned from his post on Tuesday to represent the government in a case regarding the country's Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa's tenure extension in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Railway Minister Sheikh Rasheed c
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Pakistani lawyers protest case against top judge
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Jun 18 (ANI): A leading lawyers' association in Pakistan has strongly protested the filing of a misconduct case against Supreme Court judge Qazi Faez Isa, who had been critical of the country's powerful military establishment over its role in an anti-government prote
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New UK property law could spell doom for Pak politicians
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], Feb 5 (ANI): The United Kingdom Government has introduced new rules which gives the law enforcement officers sweeping powers to usurp assets and properties that have been accrued through "dirty money."
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