ISLAMABAD: Law Minister, Farooq H Naek Friday said that we have not received any constitutional package from the deposed judges. Talking to media here he said that the dispensation of justice becomes easier and quicker with the increase in the number of Supreme Court judges. Earlier, a delegation of Pakistan Bar Council meets with Law [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 30, 2008
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party meeting of the central and provincial parliamentary boards was called here on Friday to discuss constitutional package given by Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). Current political situation, nominations of party candidates for the by-elections, issue of reinstatement of deposed judges and party future working strategies would be the main agenda [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 29, 2008
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Sherry Rehman Thursday said the government of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and its allies would take all political parties into confidence to run affairs of the state. “Restoration of the constitution of 1973 and the initiation of the agendas of Charter of Democracy (CoD) are not something ordinary, it [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 28, 2008
ISLAMABAD: Peoples Lawyers Forum will fully support the constitutional package that Pakistan Peoples Party will introduce in the parliament after building consensus with the coalition partners. A meeting of the lawyers from Peoples Lawyers Forum from NWFP and Punjab held at the Zardari house assured the PPP Co- Chairperson Senator Asif Ali Zardari that the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 27, 2008
ISLAMABAD: Co-chairman Pakistan People’s Party, Asif Ali Zardari and Pakistan Muslim League-N Chief Nawaz Sharif agreed in their meeting on Tuesday to transfer powers of the President to the Prime Minister. Copy of the proposed constitutional package that was prepared by the PPP would be provided to PML-N Chief by the Federal Law Minister Farooq [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, May 25, 2008
FAISALABAD: Pakistan Supreme Court Bar President Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan has rejected minus-one and three-year service formula for reinstatement of deposed judges and restoration of judiciary. “We reject minus-one and three-year service formula,” Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan said while addressing while addressing lawyers’ convention here. “We want democracy and we are desirous for supremacy of parliament, however, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, May 25, 2008
LAHORE: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani has said that constitutional package for restoration of deposed judges and further empowering the parliament has been prepared and its copies will be provided to the coalition partners for reaching upon a consensus. He was talking to senior journalists and columnists here on Sunday. The Prime Minister said [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, May 25, 2008
ISLAMABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami Central Secretary General Syed Munawar Hassan has said that Constitutional package is nothing more than a deception. After opening ceremony of JI media Center addressing a press conference here on Sunday he said that the constitutional package is based on minus-one formula which is not acceptable to the lawyers, the civil society and [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 24, 2008
NWFP name to be changed into Pukhtoonkhwa ISLAMABAD: The 62-point Constitutional Amendments Package prepared by the PPP proposes abolition of the article 58/2(B) regarding President’s power to dissolve the National Assembly and transfer of President’s powers to appoint Services Chiefs to the Prime Minister. This was announced by the PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari, Mr. Asif [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 24, 2008
QUETTA: Baz Mohammad Kakar, president of the Balochistan Bar Association, has said that the lawyers community and the legal fraternity will never accept a person-specific constitutional package. Talking to the BBC, he said holding of Long March by the lawyers is part of our ongoing protest for the restoration of judges. “Lawyers from Balochistan are [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 22, 2008
KARACHI: The Members of the Committee for the Rule of Law – CRL advised the Government of the day against combining the issue of the restoration of judges with that of a constitutional package. The CRL comprises those 6 Judges who did not take oath under the year 2000 PCO including Justice (Retd.) Saeed uz [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 21, 2008
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz spokesman has said that the constitutional package would be approved in line with the Charter of Democracy (CoD). Talking to a private TV channel, spokesman PML-N Siddiqul Farooq said PML-N was unaware of the draft of the 18th amendment. Denying Pakistan Peoples Party claim of taking PML-N onboard on the proposed [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 21, 2008
President Musharraf has no plan to step down conditionally”, said Media Adviser retired Major General Rashid Qureshi told Media. He was approached by this correspondent for comments over a lead news story carried by ,’The News’,Wednesday. “This story is totally baseless and malicious. I had denied this story last night but still The News [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 21, 2008
ISLAMABAD: Former Supreme Court Bar Association President Justice (R) Tariq Mahmood has said that the proposed constitutional package of the PPP government has nothing to do with restoration of the deposed judges. “I would like to make it clear, that this package has been talked about for quite a long time. But it is not [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 20, 2008
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party Tuesday dispatched the draft of constitutional package to Presidential House. Federal Minister for Law, Farooq H. Naek had already announced on Monday that the constitutional package had been finalized which, he said, may be tabled in the Parliament before the federal budget. The draft will also be dispatched to the chiefs [...]
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