A recent judgment by Lahore High Court which, extensively citing Indian judicial verdicts, has termed the so-called ‘virginity tests’ routinely conducted on survivors of rape or sexual assault a ‘blatant violation of the dignity of a woman’ and held them to be unconstitutional.
January 13, 2021Mehndi Khan was 86 years when the case was registered against him.
July 26, 2020Last year, Shehbaz stepped down as Public Account Committee chief and nominated his party’s MNA from Sheikhupura Rana Tanvir Hussain as his replacement.
June 3, 2020The former premier was admitted to the hospital for a cardiac procedure.
February 15, 2020The new bench will hear Maryam's petition on February 10
February 9, 2020In the letter written to the former premier, the Punjab Home Department directed Sharif to submit updated medical reports to the department within three days.
January 31, 2020A special court in Islamabad on December 17 last year handed down the death penalty to the 74-year-old retired general.
January 28, 2020On Thursday, Musharraf had moved the apex court, seeking to overturn the Islamabad-based special court's December 17, 2019, verdict, which sentenced him to death in the high treason case.
January 18, 2020The appeal came days after the Lahore High Court (LHC) declared the formation of the special court as "unconstitutional".
January 16, 2020He ruled: “We direct the law enforcement agencies to strive their level best to apprehend the fugitive/convict and to ensure that the punishment is inflicted as per law and if found dead, his corpse be dragged to the D-Chowk, Islamabad, and be hanged for three days.”
January 15, 2020Shah said that the special court had been constituted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan and it consisted of judges from three high courts of the country.
January 14, 2020Earlier, Khan had said that the PET scan will give a clearer picture of the reasons behind Nawaz Sharif’s low platelet count and that once this is determined, the ailing politician will undergo a cardiac procedure.
January 4, 2020On December 17, Musharraf was sentenced to death by a Pakistan court.
December 28, 2019The verdict marked the first time in Pakistan's history that a military chief was declared guilty of high treason and handed a death sentence.
December 27, 2019"It's one of the key investigations to establish the cause of severe Thrombocytopenia," Khan added.
November 29, 2019Khan also said that there was a perceived disparity in how the powerful and common people were treated in the country's judicial system.
November 26, 2019He went for a consultation with experts in haematology section of the hospital. Haematology is a speciality covering the diagnosis and treatment of blood disorders.
November 24, 2019