GHA to hold peaceful protest outside Parliament todayBy Shahina MaqboolIslamabad: The teaching faculty of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences has verbally communicated a set of proposed.
In this file photo, former president Asif Ali Zardari arrives in a court for a hearing. AP/File
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday constituted a medical board to ascertain health condition of former president Asif Ali Zardari who is seeking bail in a case related to suspicious transactions from the accounts of Bahria Town to fake accounts.
An IHC division bench comprising Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani took up Mr Zardari’s petition seeking pre-arrest bail in the case of about Rs8.3 billion suspicious transactions from the joint accounts of Bahria Town’s assistant private secretary Mushtaq and Zain Malik into fake accounts.
MDCAT 2020: Court directs PMC to resolve problems of students
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Court assures students that their concerns will be heard
Court rejects argument regarding provincial domain of tests
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday directed the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) to resolve the grievances of the students regarding the Medical and Dental College Admission Test (MDCAT) 2020.
The IHC issued the orders while hearing a petition filed by students against the violations by the PMC in the MDCAT exam.
The court said that students should go to the PMC and all their objections would be heard.
During the hearing, the counsel for the students had argued that carrying out exams was not in the domain of the federal government and was a subject of the provincial government.
A file photo of Pakistan-born neuroscientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui.
ISLAMABAD: Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a US citizen of Pakistani origin, refused to meet Pakistan’s consul general for processing her mercy petition, the foreign ministry informed the Islamabad High Court on Monday.
The ministry submitted the report in connection with a petition filed by Dr Aafia’s sister, Dr Fowzia Siddiqui, seeking her repatriation from the US. Justice Aamer Farooq heard the petition.
While apprising the court of the status of the mercy petition, the report stated that “following the signing of the mercy petition by Dr Aafia during the December 2019 consular visit, our embassy in Washington DC had approached the US Department of Justice (DoJ) for further course of action.