By News reportAg APPISLAMABAD: The Sindh government Thursday reiterated its stance that the Senate elections should be held through the secret ballot, as Article 226 of the Constitution advocated.
Sindh AG informs apex court accepting presidential reference tantamount to amending Constitution
ISLAMABAD:
Sindh Advocate General Salman Talibuddin has informed the Supreme Court of Pakistan that accepting the presidential reference would be tantamount to amending the Constitution.
The Sindh government’s top lawyer was presenting his arguments before the five-judge larger bench seized with the presidential reference on open ballot for Senate elections.
The federal government through Attorney General for Pakistan Khalid Jawed Khan filed the presidential reference under Article 186 of the Constitution, seeking opinion of the apex court as to whether the Senate elections are held under the Constitution (Article 226) or under the law (Election Act 2017).
ISLAMABAD: The federal government intends to join the review proceedings initiated by the Sindh government against the acquittal of the accused ordered by the Supreme Court in the murder case of US journalist Daniel Pearl.
A spokesman for the Attorney General Office on Saturday announced that it would be filing an application with the Supreme Court seeking permission to join as a party the proceedings before the top court to seek review and recall of its Jan 28, 2021 Supreme Court judgment of acquitting Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh believed to be the mastermind of the murder of Mr Pearl and the co-accused.
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Daniel Pearl, 38, was abducted in Karachi in January 2002 while doing a research on religious extremism. Dawn archives
KARACHI: The Supreme Court is conducting day-to-day hearings on an appeal filed by the Sindh government challenging the decision of the Sindh High Court on the appeals of four men in US journalist Daniel Pearl’s abduction and murder case.
Advocate General Sindh Salman Talibuddin submitted this before a two-judge SHC bench during the hearing of an application moved by the four men seeking contempt proceedings against the provincial authorities for keeping them in detention despite their acquittal in the case.
Petitioners Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, Fahad Naseem, Salman Saqib and Sheikh Adil through their lawyers had moved the SHC last month seeking contempt proceedings against the provincial and jail authorities for not setting them free despite court orders.