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CNews ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Saturday named Yousuf Raza Gillani as its nominee for Prime Minister. Co-Chairman of PPP Asif Ali Zardari announced the name of Yousuf Raza Gillani as the PM candidate in a statement read out by the spokesman of PPP Farhatullah Babar. The name of the candidate for the prime ministerial job was finalized by the Pakistan People’s Party after due consultations with the democratic parties and coalition partners, said the statement. Asif Ali Zardari thanked Makhdoom Yousuf Raza Gillani for assuming the great responsibility of becoming the Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and wished him success in discharging his duties with responsiblity. Country’s new prime minister will take oath of his office Tuesday morning - March 25 - at the Aiwan-e-Sadr, under the 1973 Constitution. The President has already summoned the National Assembly to meet on Monday at 1600 hrs to elect the new leader of the house. The session has been summoned...

CNews ISLAMABAD: The 11-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC) headed by Justice Javed Iqbal during proceedings of various constitutional petitions filed against the candidacy/eligibility of the president for the next term as well holding of two offices on Thursday adjourned the hearing of the case till Monday. Supreme Court is a constitutional and not a revolutionary forum, Justice Javed Iqbal heading an 11-member bench of the apex court observed on Thursday during proceedings of the said constitutional petitions filed by Wajihuddin Ahmed and Makhdoom Amin Fahim and others. Ch.Aitzaz Ahsan appearing before the bench as counsel of the petitioner Justice (Retd) Wajihuddin Ahmed who completed his arguments on Thursday said that general elections for existing assemblies were held on October 10, 2002 and they had already completed the mandate and the constitutional term of five year on October 10, and today is October 25. So, these assemblies were not competent to elect the president for ...

PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court (PHC) Chief Justice, Justice Tariq Pervaiz has taken a suo motto notice of the incident of violence against lawyers on the eve of the presidential election. Chief Justice Tariq Pervaiz, taking suo motto notice of the yesterday’s violence perpetrated on the lawyers outside NWFP Assembly, has summoned Peshawar Police Chief, Abdul Majeed Marwat along with the record. The lawyers on the eve of presidential election yesterday were protesting outside the NWFP Assembly, when the police armoured vehicle dashed past the lawyers’ gathering, which resulted in the injury to several lawyers including the PHC Bar President, Abdul Latif Afridi. An FIR of this incident nominating Peshawar SSP and DSP was also got registered in the Police Station (East). Later, the lawyers had torched the armoured vehicle.

CNews ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court (SC), while hearing the case of missing persons here, has ordered for the retrieval of all missing persons by October 11.Chief Justice, Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was heading the Bench hearing missing persons’ case. SC CJ ordered that all the missing persons be retrieved and presented before the Court by October 11. SC order further said that severe action would be taken against the security agencies on violation.Federal Interior Secretary, Syed Kamal Shah was also present in the Court during the hearing.

ISLAMABAD: Known jurist Justice ® Fakhruddin G Ibrahim and other lawyers, in a letter addressed to the Supreme Court’s chief justice and other judges, made a plea that the country was presently passing through a critical phase, as the cases under hearing in the court would determine a new direction and therefore, full court of the Supreme Court be constituted for the hearing these cases, which may also include the chief justices of the High Courts.Reminding the judges their duty to uphold the law and the constitution, the letter further said that if it were not done so, then its results would be disastrous. The letter said that the Supreme Court was presently hearing the most important case of the Pakistan history, whose petitioner had been the chief justice of Sindh High Court, this case would determine the future of the country and therefore, for such a high-profile case, full court be constituted. The law of necessity would have to be buried once for all, the letter said. Islamabad,...