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PESHAWAR: Pashto singer Shakeela Naz and her spouse Mian Farooq Firaq, who is a journalist, have served legal notice on a car tracking system company and sought damages to the tune of one billion... PESHAWAR: Pashto singer Shakeela Naz and her spouse Mian Farooq Firaq, who is a journalist, have served legal notice on a car tracking system company and sought damages to the tune of one billion rupees for jamming their vehicle in a deserted place. The legal notice was served on the company, MegaTech, by Advocate Saifullah Muhib Kakakahel. It stated that despite giving prior information to the company to disconnect their vehicle’s tracking device as being its clients they were travelling to a...

PESHAWAR: A senior lawyer has proposed the establishment of e-courts in the Peshawar High Court and district courts across the province for the disposal of cases during the outbreak of novel coronavirus (Covid-19). In a letter sent to PHC Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth, Mian Muhibullah Kakakhel said e-courts would save lawyers, judges, litigants and court staff members from contracting the virus. He suggested the development of a mobile app and software for the production of scanned documents related to cases by lawyers and litigants, payment of court fee, and hearing into civil and criminal cases and bail pleas by video link. Lawyer writes to PHC CJ saying facility to benefit both...

PESHAWAR: A lawyer on Wednesday filed a contempt petition with the Peshawar High Court seeking action against the chief executive of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Care Commission and high-ups of the health department for not complying with the court’s orders to regulate the rates of laboratories and clinics. Petitioner Saifullah Muhib Kakakhel said following the outbreak of Covid-19, the high court judgment delivered on Nov 13, 2019, had assumed importance as the HCC and health department hadn’t complied with it regarding the fixation of rates for health facilities and bringing of uniformity in those rates. He had earlier filed a petition seeking the court’s orders for the HCC to regulate...

With continuous rise in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases, prisons across the country have become the focus of discussion as prisoners are vulnerable to the deadly virus. Different high courts in the country have adopted both judicial and administrative measures in a bid to reduce prison populations in their respective jurisdiction, while civil society groups have been campaigning for taking measures so as to release mostly under-trial prisoners specially those arrested in connection in petty nature cases. In the wake of Covid-19 pandemic two organisations working for the rights of prisoners – Justice Project Pakistan (JPP) and Group Development Pakistan (GDP) – have prepared a...

KLA Senior Partner Saifullah Muhib Kakakhel got promotion orders for students of 2nd professional and 3rd professional MBBS as there was dispute in the result of supplementary examination. Khyber Medical University revised the supplementary result and have passed some students by granting more than 16 marks whereas there was dispute of 26 marks in papers of Pharmacology and Pathology. The revised result has also been challenged on the ground of discrimination and students have prayed that they should also be declared passed by granting them compensatory marks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEif6IFFmM4 KLA Senior Partner Saifullah Muhib Kakakhel Advocate High Court sharing views with Anchor Irfan Khan, Mashriq TV on the Petition filed in Peshawar High Court to Free Prisoners to shed the population of inmates and to set free under trial prisoners, women, juveniles and those having health issues. He also sheds light on the number of inmates in prisons in KP and their status.

A woman filed a petition before a local family court in Peshawar on Tuesday against her husband for not giving her custody of their two minor sons and for not providing her maintenance. Filed through her counsels – Saifullah Muhib and Mehwish Muhib, the petitioner claimed that she is the third of four wives of the respondent. The petition further said that the respondent has 13 children, including five from first wife, five from his second wife, and three from her. The respondent has already divorced two women before marrying these four women, she said. The petitioner claimed that her husband provides maintenance to his other wives because they readily make TikTok videos with him. The...

The International Women’s Day was observed across the country amid clear divisions in the society over issues related to women. This division is even visible on government level, where some members of the federal cabinet including human rights minister Ms Shireen Mazari extended support to Aurat March 2020, whereas some others openly criticised organsiers of the said march in different parts of the country. Some of the experts believe that there are several women-related issues over which different schools of thought are in agreement and at least those issues should be addressed instead of outrightly turning down each other’s view point. One such issue is that of women’s right to...

PESHAWAR: A local court on Saturday directed a bailiff for the recovery of a family, including two women, allegedly kept in illegal detention by officials of Pahari Pura police station as a male member of the family married a girl against her parents’ wishes. Additional district and sessions judge Shehzad Akhundzada issued the order over a habeas corpus petition filed by a female member of the family, Yasmeen Riaz, who alleged that a couple and their son and daughter were taken away by officials of the Pahari Pura police station five days ago and their whereabouts hadn’t been known since then. The petitioner said a male member of the family, Arsalan, had married a girl and that the couple...

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has upheld the conviction of a militant by an assistant political agent for waging war against the state and attacking security forces. It, however, reduced the convict’s prison sentence from 28 years to 14 years. A bench consisting of Justice Qaiser Rasheed Khan and Justice Ijaz Anwar partially allowed appeal of the convict, Sahib Khan, who was sentenced by the APA in Kurram Agency, now Kurram tribal district, in 2017. It ruled that the benefit of Section 382-B of the Code of Criminal Procedure should be extended to him under which his period of detention prior to conviction should also be counted in his prison term. The court added that the sentences of...