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The News International (blog)
April 30, 2018
In November 2016, a local court had acquitted the NAB KP's director general, Shehzad Saleem, and investigation officer Umair Butt, who were accused of torturing Sardar Gul Khitab in custody. The FIR was that case was registered on the orders of the Peshawar High Court on May 16, 2016, under sectionsÃâà...
The News International (blog)
April 28, 2018
Senior lawyer Muhammad Khurshid Khan had also filed a petition in the Peshawar High Court against the expected handing over of Dr Shakil Afridi to the United States. The PHC bench comprising Chief Justice Yahya Afridi and Justice Abdul Shakoor had heard the petition. The court had issued notice andÃâà...
India Today
April 28, 2018
Ansari's lawyer added that the 27-year-old was also not permitted to meet his family, who has been trying to get permission from the Pakistani authorities. A separate petition by Ansari's lawyer has also been filed in the Peshawar High Court (PHC), requesting that he must not be treated like a spy, since heÃâà...
The News International (blog)
April 27, 2018
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) bench on Thursday set a two weeks deadline for the government-run Child Protection Houses to provide all facilities to the children or else face action. A two-member bench comprising Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan and Justice Ikramullah Khan directed theÃâà...
The News International (blog)
April 27, 2018
Baldev Kumar then moved the Peshawar High Court for his production order and oath-taking. In compliance with the court order, Speaker Asad Qaiser issued his production order. But MPAs from both the treasury and opposition benches protested against the production of Baldev Kumar and one of the PTIÃâà...
The News International (blog)
April 27, 2018
PESHAWAR: The newly formed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Zarghoon Tehrik is planning to hold a silent protest outside the Peshawar High Court today against the contamination of the irrigation system in the province. Also called the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Green Movement, it would demand measures to save theÃâà...
The Express Tribune
April 27, 2018
PESHAWAR: Lawyers for an Indian national, in prison on espionage charges, have requested that their client be shifted from his jail cell in Mardan to one in Peshawar. Indian national Hamid Nehal Ansari's lawyer Qazi Anwar submitted a request in this regard to the Peshawar High Court (PHC) onÃâà...
UrduPoint News
April 26, 2018
Endorsing Peshawar High Court's (PHC) decision, they said private schools were sucking blood of people in the name of quality education and made education as a business by charging parents heavily, which can't be tolerated anymore and demanded strict action against violators of the court orders.
UrduPoint News
April 26, 2018
Peshawar, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 25th Apr, 2018) : The Peshawar High Court has ordered the government on Wednesday to keep ex-Tehreek-e-Taliban pakistan spokesperson Ehsanullah Ehsan behind the bars. A two-judge bench of PHC, comprising Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan and JusticeÃâà...
UrduPoint News
April 25, 2018
Peshawar High Court Gives Stay On Appointments Of 76 Prof, Associate, Asstt Prof, Lecturers ... Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday gave stay on process of appointing 76 Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professor and Lecturers in the University of Peshawar (UoP) till next order of the court.
UrduPoint News
April 18, 2018
Peshawar High Court (PHC) Abbottabad bench Wednesday ordered laboratories and hospitals to hire female technicians for lab tests of females and directed the concerned departments to monitor the implementation. ABBOTTABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Apr, 2018 ) :Peshawar HighÃâà...
DAWN.com
April 13, 2018
The Senate on Friday gave its assent to a bill seeking the extension of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and Peshawar High Court (PHC) to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata). The Supreme Court and High Court (Extension of Jurisdiction to Fata) Bill 2017 had been lying with the upperÃâà...
Pakistan Observer
April 13, 2018
ISLAMABAD : The Senate on Friday gave its assent to a bill seeking the extension of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and Peshawar High Court (PHC) to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata). The Supreme Court and High Court (Extension of Jurisdiction to Fata) Bill 2017 had been lying withÃâà...
DAWN.com
April 11, 2018
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench on Tuesday summoned the secretary elementary and secondary education and managing director of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Private Schools Regulatory Authority (PSRA) directing them to explain why they had failed to implement a court's judgment deliveredÃâà...
The Express Tribune
April 11, 2018
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Wednesday suspended the execution of a death-row prisoner sentenced by a military court for the murder of famous qawwal Amjad Sabri. His lawyer told a two-judge bench comprising Justice Qalandar Ali Khan and Justice Ishtiaq that Hazrat Ali wasÃâà...
DAWN.com
April 11, 2018
“There shall be complete ban on charging students for transport charges during vacations. The Peshawar High Court has authorised/directed the traffic police department, to de-board any student of any private. institution who is hanging outside any private vehicle and shall charge the class teacher, schoolÃâà...
The Express Tribune
April 11, 2018
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday issued notices to the provincial government, asking it to explain why its orders on regularising of private schools have not been implemented. The court has also directed the additional registrar to issue contempt of court notices to thoseÃâà...
The News International (blog)
April 11, 2018
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday directed additional registrar judicial to file contempt of court petition against officials of the Education Department, chairmen of Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education and head of the Private Schools Associations for failing to implementÃâà...
The News International (blog)
April 11, 2018
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has set aside death penalty awarded to a convict by a subordinate court in a double murder case in Hangu district. A division bench comprising Justice Qalandar Ali Khan and Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim accepted an appeal filed by the convict, Muhammad Zaman.
UrduPoint News
April 10, 2018
PESHAWAR, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 10th Apr, 2018 ) :Chief Justice, Peshawar High Court (PHC) has ordered the posting and transfers of 42 newly appointed Judicial Officers (Civil Judges/Judicial Magistrates) with immediate effect, said the spokesman on Tuesday. Fozia Nasim has beenÃâà...
DAWN.com
April 10, 2018
PESHAWAR: Acting Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court Waqar Ahmad Seth on Monday ordered the clubbing of all appeals against an anti-terrorism court's judgment in the Mashal Khan lynching case, and holding of its hearing at the principal seat of the court in Peshawar. The schedule for hearingÃâà...
The News International (blog)
April 6, 2018
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court chief justice has ordered the posting/transfers of six judicial officers in the public interest with immediate effect. Kulsoom Azam, Additional District and Sessions Judge Mansehra, was transferred to Peshawar. Sadia Arshad, Additional District and Sessions JudgeÃâà...
DAWN.com
April 3, 2018
The absorption of Shaukat Ali Youasfzai, a BS-19 officer of the fisheries directorate, was ordered by the Peshawar High Court in 2014. A statement issued here said that in pursuance of PHC judgment dated August 19, 2014, the KP government had ordered absorption of Mr Yousafzai, additional secretaryÃâà...
MENAFN.COM
April 3, 2018
(MENAFN - Pajhwok Afghan News) PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has been urged to review a decision on the ownership of a market in the capital of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The building was purchased by the Afghan government in 1946, an official of DaÃâà...
The News International (blog)
April 3, 2018
PESHAWAR: An official of Afghan National Bank on Monday appealed to the Government of Pakistan and the Peshawar High Court (PHC) to review the decision about the ownership of a market in the city as the building was purchased by the Afghan government in 1946. Speaking at a news conference atÃâà...
Christians In Pakistan
March 26, 2018
Mardan's Christians staged a protest against occupation of land meant for construction of church building. On Thursday, March 22, Christians gathered outside the Mardan Press Club and demanded that the land be freed from illegal occupation. They urged the Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court to takeÃâà...
The News International (blog)
March 24, 2018
PESHAWAR: The appointment of Director Programmes (BPS-19) in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Commission on the Status of Women was challenged in the Peshawar High Court (PHC) as the petitioner claimed that this was made in violation of the rules and relevant law. The appointment was challenged byÃâà...
The Express Tribune
March 23, 2018
PESHAWAR: A book publisher has been asked to publicly apologise for including derogatory material against Pashtuns and Sikhs in some books it publishes for some Punjab-based colleges. This was directed by a two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court (PHC), comprising Justice Qaiser RashidÃâà...
UrduPoint News
March 21, 2018
The Peshawar High Court (PHC) here Wednesday took up the case of Sharifa Bibi, a girl who was molested in Dera Ismail Khan months ago by the accused now at large. PESHAWAR, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st Mar, 2018 ):The Peshawar High Court (PHC) here Wednesday took up the case ofÃâà...
DAWN.com
March 20, 2018
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has requested Peshawar High Court to club all the appeals originated out of the judgment of an anti-terrorism court in Mashal Khan lynching case and conduct its hearing at the principal seat of the court in Peshawar. PHC Chief Justice Yahya Afridi tookÃâà...
The News International (blog)
March 20, 2018
MANSEHRA: The nazims of 194 village and neighbourhood councils on Monday announced to move the Peshawar High Court (PHC) against the withholding of budgetary allocations of current financial year to their councils by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led provincial government. “We haveÃâà...
The News International (blog)
March 20, 2018
PESHAWAR: The three recently confirmed judges of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) took oath of office on Monday. Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court Yahya Afridi administered oath to the judges at the oath taking ceremony held at Court Room No 1.The judges included Justice Abdul Shakoor, JusticeÃâà...
The Express Tribune
March 17, 2018
A two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) comprising Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan and Justice Muhammad Ayub was hearing writ petition filed by Advocate Misraf Khan, who is seeking orders against the Water and Sanitation Services, Peshawar (WSSP) and the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P)Ãâà...
The News International (blog)
March 17, 2018
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has summoned top officials of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Department, directing them to explain why two percent quota was not allocated for transgender community in the jobs. A division bench comprising Justice Ikramullah Khan and Justice MuhammadÃâà...
The News International (blog)
March 17, 2018
PESHAWAR: Setting aside the appointment of Dr Arshad Javaid as vice-chancellor Khyber Medical University, the Peshawar High Court (PHC) declared that illegality was committed in the process of shortlisting of candidates by some members of Academic Search Committee. However, the court declaredÃâà...
Samaa Web Desk
March 16, 2018
ISLAMABAD: A special Peshawar court hearing treason case against former military dictator Pervez Musharraf has ordered the federal government to take measures to bring him back to Pakistan. The three-member court led by Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Yahya Afridi issued a written order onÃâà...
The News International (blog)
March 11, 2018
PESHAWAR: Two women from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) on Saturday moved the Peshawar High Court (PHC) for allocation of reserved seats for tribal women in both the Senate and National Assembly. The petition was filed by Mehreen Afridi, chairperson Fata Youth EmpowermentÃâà...
The Nation
March 10, 2018
PESHAWAR - Muhammad Iqbal, father of slain Mashal Khan has expressed dismay over the Peshawar High Court's Abbottabad bench decision regarding acquittal of 25 convicted persons in the Mashal lynching case. Iqbal has termed verdict “unilateral”, and appealed to the chief justice of the SupremeÃâà...
Pakistan Today
March 9, 2018
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court (PHC) bench has issued notifications to the court's chief justice via his principal staff, its administrative committee and provincial government in a petition challenging the decision to appoint the court's registrar and additional registrar from the bureaucracy, a local newsÃâà...
UrduPoint News
March 2, 2018
PESHAWAR, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 02nd Mar, 2018 ):The Peshawar High Court (PHC) Friday ordered Speaker KP Assembly to administer oath to Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) Baldev Kumar who was charged in the murder case of Pakistan Tahrik-e-Insaf MPA Sardar Soran Singh fromÃâà...
DAWN.com
March 2, 2018
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench on Thursday declared unconstitutional certain amendments to the provincial Ehtesab law through which the judges of the high court's administrative committee were given important tasks in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission, especially that ofÃâà...
UrduPoint News
March 2, 2018
HARIPUR, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 01st Mar, 2018 ):Sixteen convicted in Mashal Khan murder case were released from Central Jail Haripur (CJH) on the orders of Peshawar High Court (PHC) Abbottabad bench while remaining would be released after receiving the court orders. The jailÃâà...
UrduPoint News
March 2, 2018
He politicians and lawyers fraternity here Friday highly lauded the decision of Peshawar High Court (PHC) for striking down an impugned amendment made by the PTI-led Government to the KP Ehtesab Commission (KPEC) Act 2014 and declared it in line with spirit of constitution and principles of naturalÃâà...
UrduPoint News
March 2, 2018
Peshawar, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 02nd Mar, 2018)The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has warned of issuing a stay order on the Senate polls if the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly does not swear in as MPA Baldev Kumar, an accused in the murder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MPA SardarÃâà...
UrduPoint News
February 23, 2018
Peshawar, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Feb, 2018): The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Friday summoned the police official investigating the murder of a medical student Asma Rani in Kohat along with record of the case on next hearing. A bench of the high court was hearing a petition filed byÃâà...
UrduPoint News
February 23, 2018
Peshawar, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Feb, 2018): The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Friday summoned the police official investigating the murder of a medical student Asma Rani in Kohat along with record of the case on next hearing. A bench of the high court was hearing a petition filed byÃâà...
Daily Times
February 22, 2018
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court halted on Thursday the directive of Mardan's district police officer, ordering eviction of transgender persons from their houses. Justice Ikramullah Khan and Justice Ghazanfar Ali heard a petition on Thursday filed by the transgender community through Gul RahmanÃâà...
DAWN.com
February 13, 2018
The Transaction Alliance, representing transgender and intersex community in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), petitioned the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday to ensure transgenders are able to cast their votes as well as contest elections. The application, filed on behalf of the president and generalÃâà...
DAWN.com
February 8, 2018
The Peshawar High Court on Thursday disposed off a writ petition seeking the formation of a judicial commission to probe the 2014 attack on Army Public School (APS), ruling that it is the government's mandate to initiate such inquiry. A two-member bench comprising Chief Justice Yahya Afridi and JusticeÃâà...
The News International (blog)
December 31, 1999
PESHAWAR: Residents of Palai area in Malakand district have moved the Peshawar High Court (PHC) against construction of a cement factory. Muhammad Saleem and others of Palai area filed an application in the Human Rights Cell of the PHC against the construction. PHC Chief Justice Yahya Afridi onÃâà...
