Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday dismissed major legal challenges to President Pervez Musharraf's re-election even as the general reportedly made plans to visit Saudi Arabia for talks with its ruler on the possible return of former premier Nawaz Sharif.
It sought a report within a week from senior officials of Sindh province and the federal interior secretary Syed Kamal Shah.
Senior advocate Ram Jethmalani, appearing for one of the victims, was blunt in his arguments and assailed the practice of triple talaq various constitutional grounds including the Right to Equality. "The right of triple talaq is available only to the husband and not to the wife and it breaches the Article 14 (Right to Equality) of the Constitution," Jethmalani said.
The Pakistan Supreme Court on Friday allowed President Pervez Musharraf to contest the presidential election in uniform, ARY TV reported.
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Asharf will appear in the Supreme Court on Monday to face a contempt charge though a section of the ruling Pakistan People's Party is opposed to the move, sources said on Sunday.
Amid speculation that martial law will be declared if it rules against President Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday said it attached "no value to such threats." The apex court said that it will give its judgment on legal challenges to the General's re-election within 12 days. Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had on Tuesday rejected the bench's recommendation that all 18 judges of the Supreme Court should decide whether Musharraf is eligible.
The state government on Friday informed the SC that it has not received any applications from people in PoK claiming ancestral property in J&K.
The court said that the national anthem was an immortal classic not subject to change.
In a relief to Pakistan's jailed same sex couple, the Supreme Court on Thursday granted them bail, staying the three-year sentence awarded to them by the Lahore high court.
The actor is to star in a film alongside Hollywood biggies Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts.
The delegation was told that the autonomy resolution passed by the Jammu and Kashmir assembly in 2000 should be implemented.
Rediff.com does a quick checklist on what the two manifestos have to say on hot-button issues of the day.
Buoyed by a Pakistan court's order -- that stated that the trial of terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab cannot be separated from that of the seven Pakistani suspects arrested for planning the terror siege on Mumbai -- Lashkar-e-Tayiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi plans to file a petition in the Supreme Court seeking an acquittal. "We will approach the Supreme Court in a few days, following the Lahore high court's order," said Lakhvi's lawyer Khwaja Sultan.
The petitioner contended that various interpretations regarding the sighting of the moon have hurt the religious emotions of the people and 'harmed national prestige,' the Pak Tribune reported.
ICC president Ehsan Mani said the India-Pakistan Test and ODI series will not be sanctioned without live feeds.
Modi said the way each section of the society welcomed the verdict reflects India's ancient traditions of amity and harmony.
Bangladesh government on Monday sought death penalty for rightwing Jamaat-e-Islami's 91-year-old supremo Ghulam Azam as it challenged in the Supreme Court a 90-year jail term handed down to him by a special tribunal for war crimes.
BJP members took strong exception to the comments and rushed to the well demanding that the speaker expunge the "derogatory words" from the proceedings.
The Supreme Court has directed the Centre to complete fencing work along the Indo-Bangla border within three months to check cross-border influx of illegal Bangladesh nationals into Assam and streamline the process to deport them back.
The Delhi and District Cricket Association has offered to host the two IPL play-off games scheduled in Pune after the Bombay High Court ordered for their shifting from Maharashtra owing to the water crisis in the state.
Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar M Chaudhry was on Tuesday accorded a hero's welcome by lawyers and staff when he arrived at the Supreme Court following his dramatic reinstatement by the government last week.
The BCCI President said that Pakistan's tour is in doubt due to the long-running court battle over TV rights.
Pakistan's embattled Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday appeared before the Supreme Court to face a contempt notice for not reopening graft cases against Asif Ali Zardari, saying he was unable to act as the president enjoyed complete immunity under the Constitution.
'(Upper caste) leaders talk against the Constitution, reservations and the nation and still get away.'
The government is likely to send a Presidential reference to Supreme Court for conducting a probe into the allegation of sexual harassment against Justice (retd) A K Ganguly after Attorney General has endorsed it.
The Supreme Court was acting on three separate habeas corpus petitions stating that the Pakistani nationals have been detained 'arbitrarily' for the last nine years.
Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti on Monday dismissed concerns over alleged slow progress in the Centre's Namami Gange programme saying that the NDA government has resolved to make the river as "one of the cleanest" in the world by October 2018.
Even as politics engaged him more, he never hid his way of life. On one occasion, Morarji Desai pleaded with him to stop drinking publicly. "You stick to your pissky and I'll stick to my whisky'' he is supposed to have told him.
Memon, 53, was found guilty of conspiracy in 2007 for the serial blasts that killed over 250 people.
The president-elect has vast public, social, and political experience which will help him better to discharge his duty as the First Citizen of India.
The court asked the former Bihar chief minister to file an undertaking regarding continuance of trial in fodder scam cases.
'The judicial procedure was influenced which led to no convictions in the anti-Sikh riots of 1984'
The Centre, in its informal response to a PIL seeking deletion of the word Sindh from the national anthem, stated that the word represented the culture and not the province.
In his petition to the Supreme Court, Yakub had stated that he had been in jail for more than 20 years, which is more than the jail term awarded for life imprisonment, which is 14 years.
Akhtaruzzaman Elias's The Raincoat describes the effect of the 1971 war on a college and on one of its teachers in particular.
What India has failed to acknowledge is that sub-conventional war is the name of the game and irregular forces have emerged with greater strategic value over conventional and even nuclear forces, and reliance purely on conventional force and diplomacy is grossly inadequate, says Lt Gen Prakash Katoch (retired).
The apex court made this observation while hearing petitions challenging President Pervez Mushrraf holding dual offices.
'Shaheen Bagh is no longer a mere ghetto of lower middle class Muslims.' 'Now, it is a metaphor for resistance, secularism and struggle,' notes Md. Zeeshan Ahmad.
Voting will be held in 55 seats on Sunday in the penultimate phase of Bihar election, with stakes high for the Bharatiya Janata Party as it had along with its then ally Janata Dal-United bagged majority of seats in last assembly polls.
Speaking at the inauguration and laying of foundation schemes of various schemes, Modi said, Leh and Ladakh will also be benefited by this.
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