File a case against Google, Lahore High Court tells FIA
Agency has to inform court if it can file a case SAMAA | Shahid Hussain - Posted: Dec 28, 2020 | Last Updated: 3 months ago SAMAA | Shahid Hussain Posted: Dec 28, 2020 | Last Updated: 3 months ago
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You should file a case against Google if you can, Lahore High Court Chief Justice Qasim Khan told the FIA during a hearing on Monday.
Justice Khan was hearing a petition seeking the removal of offensive content on the internet.
If someone is sitting abroad and spreading offensive content, what can the FIA do, asked the judge. He was informed by the government s lawyer that the FIA is investigating such cases.
Depressed Karachi Rano bear moving from pit to open cage
The order is temporary until final decision taken SAMAA | Muzhira Amin - Posted: Dec 23, 2020 | Last Updated: 3 months ago SAMAA | Muzhira Amin Posted: Dec 23, 2020 | Last Updated: 3 months ago
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Rano, a 20-year-old Syrian brown bear, has been living a solitary life trapped in a 25-foot wide Victorian âgrottoâ pit at the Karachi zoo for the last three years.
On Wednesday, the Sindh High Court ordered that she be relocated to another cage 500 times bigger.
Justice Irfan Saadat Khan told Sindhâs advocate
general, representing the case for the zoo and the Karachi Metropolitan
Court summons SBCA DG over illegal constructions
SBCA s counsel says residential area turned into industrial zone, sewerage system destroyed
Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) raided the Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) office at Civic Centre PHOTO: EXPRESS
KARACHI:
A Sindh High Court bench issued notices on Tuesday summoning the Sindh Building Control Authority director-general in personal capacity at the next hearing of the plea against illegal constructions in the Bahadurabad residential area.
A two-member bench, headed by Justice Irfan Saadat Khan and comprising Justice Yousuf Ali Sayeed, heard the plea.
During the hearing, the counsel representing SBCA, advocate Tariq Mansoor, resigned from his post, maintaining that being in the panel was of no benefit when he could not get justice in a year and a half.
LHC CJ orders verification of PBC candidates’ degrees
National
December 22, 2020
LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Muhammad Qasim Khan on Monday ordered verification of LLB degrees of lawyers taking part in Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) elections scheduled for December 31. Justice Khan directed all the candidates to submit their degrees to the PBC Chairman/Attorney General Pakistan within 48 hours for verification from the relevant universities.
Chief Justice Khan was hearing a petition filed by one Amir Shah. The petition was fixed before the court for hearing as an objection case after the LHC registrar office put an objection to its maintainability. A federal law officer raised objection on maintainability of the petition during the hearing. He stated that the candidates belonging to other provinces were also taking part in the PBC elections, therefore, the court did not have the jurisdiction to hear the matter. At this stage, the court questioned steps taken for
National
December 22, 2020
LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Muhammad Qasim Khan on Monday expressed serious dismay over the slackness of the government to ensure removal of blasphemous material on the internet and summoned the authorities concerned.
Without naming Prime Minister Imran Khan, the Chief Justice observed, “It is easy to make claims to establish Riasat-i-Medina. It seems the top man needs to be summoned.” Advocate Azhar Haseeb filed a petition seeking a direction for the government to get the name of the leader of Ahmadi community as caliph of Islam removed from the Google. The lawyer pleads that when an internet user writes “who is present caliph of Islam”, in the Google search engine the name of the Ahamdi community’s leader appears in the answer. He argued that the law does not allow the Ahamdi community to preach but it is being done through the internet. During the hearing, Chief Justice Khan regretted that the matter has been raised on the inter