The SC also ordered the National Accountability Court to start a corruption case against Sharif, his sons -- Hussain and Hassan -- and daughter Maryam.
The decision is keenly awaited as it would determine the course of Pakistan's polity and with it Sharif's. An adverse decision may result in Sharif's disqualification, or even snap elections.
Police and Lahore Development Authority officials were busy in removing encroachments outside the Arfa Karim Tower, located near the CM's Model Town residence, when a powerful blast took place.
Jadhav, 46, filed a mercy petition before Gen Bajwa last month, according to an Inter-Services Public Relations statement issued on June 22. The statement said that the former Indian Navy officer had filed the petition after the Military Appellate Court rejected his appeal.
Sharif said his family business has been targeted for over six decades but "there is no single sentence.
A report in a daily said that Pakistan was worried over the visit as it could have serious implications on strategic stability in the region.
'Nasr' is a high-precision weapon system with the ability to be deployed quickly, the army said.
Addressing the media amid tight security at the Centre Press Club in Muzaffarabad for the first time since the US declared him a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" on June 27, Salahuddin rejected the US decision and said he was a freedom fighter and not a terrorist.
The harrowing tragedy struck Pakistan's Punjab province on Sunday just a day before Eid celebrations when a tanker carrying 40,000 litres of petrol overturned and burst into flames as hundreds of villagers had gathered to collect the fuel spilled over on the highway at the Ahmedpur Sharqia area of the Bahawalpur district, some 400 km from Lahore.
The tanker exploded after fuel leaking from its damaged container caught fire.
The ISPR has claimed that Jadhav has admitted to his involvement in espionage, terrorist and subversive activities in Pakistan
The madrasa management claims the journalists were drinking water during the day and that they were initially asked to stop.
Pakistan through its consulate in Netherlands came to know that the ICJ ordered India to submit a response by September 13.
Sharif lashed out at "some unseen elements" for hatching conspiracies against his democratically-elected government.
The 27-second video was released a day after it claimed to have killed five Indian soldiers while retaliating to India's "unprovoked ceasefire violation" in Tatta Pani sector along the LoC.
Pak accused the Indian government of misusing the media to create a 'false impression of winning' Jadhav's case in the ICJ.
An examination of some user profiles linked to these banned outfits indicates open support of sectarian and extremist ideology. A few of these profiles have also publicly 'liked' pages and groups related to weapons use and training.
The petitioner argued that the people of Pakistan had a right of retribution.
Uzma, who is in her early 20s, hails from New Delhi and had travelled to Pakistan earlier this month.
The request was made in view of the upcoming elections for ICJ judges, scheduled to be held in November,
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