The Balochistan High Court (BHC) has sentenced former provincial lawmaker Abdul Majeed Achakzai to 10 years in prison in connection with the 2017 hit-and-run incident that resulted in the death of a traffic police officer in Quetta. A division bench comprising Justice Muhammad Amir Nawaz Rana and Justice Abdul Qayyum Lehri accepted the provincial government’s...
The Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) has fixed August 7 for hearing a petition seeking the release of former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan, keeping the high-profile legal matter in the national spotlight. The petition was filed by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur, who has asked the court to order...
Former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, have approached the Supreme Court by filing a chamber appeal against the registrar’s decision to return their petitions challenging the Islamabad High Court’s refusal to suspend their sentences in the £190 million Al-Qadir Trust case. The appeal, submitted through their counsel, Barrister Salman Safdar, under...
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has adjourned the hearing of sentence suspension petitions filed by human rights lawyers Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha, despite an earlier Supreme Court directive requiring the matter to be decided within two weeks. The development has drawn attention to delays in a case that has generated significant legal...