ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Law and Justice is at loggerheads with the Capital Development Authority (CDA) over the appointment of a known activist of the ruling PTI as a legal adviser of the civic agency.
In contradiction to its own policy, the law ministry recommended the name of Shahid Naseem Tahir Gondal for the post of CDA legal adviser but also rejected the summary moved by the civic agency containing the names of three eminent lawyers for the same position.
Earlier this month, CDA had forwarded a summary to the law ministry, seeking the “appointment of a legal adviser in the CDA”.
National
January 30, 2021
BAHAWALPUR: Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Bahawalpur Special Judge Nasir Hussain Friday awarded five times life imprisonment to an accused involved in a rape-cum-murder case.
According to the prosecution, Azhar Maachi of Tagga Balochan of district Bahawalnagar raped a seven-year-old girl and later murdered her. The court also imposed Rs 2,000,000 fine and ordered the convict him to pay Rs 1,000,000 to the heirs of the girl as compensation. The court ordered in case of non-payment of fine the convict would face more two-and-a-half years imprisonment.
TWO INJURED IN HOUSE FIRE: Two people were hurt in a house fire in Millat Colony, Bahawalpur on Friday. According to Rescue-1122, the fire erupted due to gas leakage in a house and Imran, 46, and Shoaib, 28, suffered burns. The injured were shifted to Bahawal Victoria Hospital.
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ISLAMABAD: By a majority of two to one, the Supreme Court acquitted on Thursday Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh, the principal accused in murder of Wall Street Journal’s bureau chief for South Asia Daniel Pearl, by extending the benefit of the doubt to him.
Headed by Justice Mushir Alam, a three-judge Supreme Court bench also comprising Justice Sardar Tariq Masood and Justice Yahya Afridi ordered that Mr Sheikh, Fahad Naseem Ahmed, Syed Salman Saqib and Shaikh Muhammad Adil be set free forthwith, if not required to be detained in connection with any other case. The detailed reasons for the judgement will come later.
Islamabad, Jan 28 : The Pakistan Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the key accused in the 2002 kidnap and murder
In this March 29, 2002 file photo, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the alleged mastermind behind Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl s kidnap-slaying, appears at the court in Karachi. AP/ File
The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered authorities to release Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the principal accused in the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl, dismissing petitions against his release and acquittal (on murder charges) by the Sindh High Court.
The apex court was seized with a set of appeals instituted by the Sindh government through Prosecutor General Dr Fiaz Shah, the parents of the slain journalist, namely Ruth Pearl and Judea Pearl, through senior counsel Faisal Siddiqui as well as Sheikh, the principal accused in the murder case, through Advocate Mehmood A. Sheikh.