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The district courts of Pakistan are courts that operate at the district level, they are controlled by the high courts. [1] District courts exist in every district of each province, with civil and criminal jurisdiction. In each district headquarters, there are numerous additional district and session judges who usually preside over the courts.
Lahore High Court Sindh High Court A Corner View of the Balochistan High Court Building, Quetta, Pakistan. There is a high court for the Islamabad Capital Territory and four provincial high courts. A high court is the principal court of its province. [1] The Lahore High Court in Lahore, Punjab, [10] with circuit benches at Bahawalpur, Multan ...
A district council (or zila council) is a local government body at the district level.. The functions of a district council include construction and maintenance of roads, and bridges, building hospitals and dispensaries, schools and educational institutions, health facilities and sanitation, tube wells for drinking water, rest houses, and coordination of activities of the Union councils within ...
No person is appointed as a Judge of the High Court unless he is a citizen of Pakistan having forty years and has been an advocate of the High Court or has held a judicial office for ten years and has for a period of not less than three years served as or exercised the functions of a District Judge in Pakistan. A Judge of a High Court holds ...
The Court of Session is the primary court of first instance in criminal cases in Pakistan, and most serious criminal cases are tried in it. The court also has limited ...
Appointed 3rd Chief Justice of Pakistan Alvin R. Cornelius: Lahore HC: 22 Nov 1951–9 Jun 1952 17 Oct 1952–31 May 1953 10 Oct 1953–29 Feb 1968: Muhammad Mirza Khan: Retired: Appointed 4th Chief Justice of Pakistan S.A. Rehman: Lahore HC: 2 Mar 1955–23 May 1955 2 Apr 1958–3 Jun 1968: Muhammad Mirza: Retired: Appointed 5th Chief Justice ...
The principal officers of the NAB are its Chairman and Prosecutor General. Its headquarters are in Islamabad. There are regional bureaus under Directors General in Rawalpindi, Lahore, Karachi, Quetta, Peshawar, Sukkur and Multan. [4] There are four sub-offices (for Gwadar, Hyderabad, Gilgit and Baltistan, and Chamman [5]) under Additional ...
In Molvi Tamizuddin Khan case, the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Mohammad Munir backed Governor General Ghulam Mohammad's action to dissolve the first Constitutional Assembly. This judgement of Supreme Court is always strongly criticized by all democratic parties of Pakistan and is referred as a root cause of unstable democracy in Pakistan.