An anti-terrorism court in Pakistani on Friday issued an arrest warrant against former president Pervez Musharraf for ordering house arrest of judges of different courts in 2007, local media reported. The court in Islamabad ordered the authorities to arrest and produce the former president before it...

A death row prisoner, convicted of killing four policemen, was hanged on Tuesday in Pakistan, a media report said. The execution took place in Punjab province’s Bahawalpur city, Dawn online reported Zulfiqar was sentenced to death after he was found guilty of killing four policemen in 1997. Pakistan...

The Lahore high court today told the country’s prime minister Nawaz Sharif and 15 other politicians they’d have to give an account to the court of the assets they hold domestically and abroad, in a petition relating to the return of politicians’ overseas assets. [IANS]

Amarchand formally inaugurates Chennai office over weekend, four months after opening in the city [ Asia Legal Business / Bar & Bench ] Nalsar follows Symbiosis law school and NLSIU to hold its first ever film festival [ Nalsar Film Festival ] SC rebukes central gov’t for not filing response on...

Pakistan Supreme Court summons Pakistani PM Gilani over giving immunity to Prez Zardari in graft cases; Bench to slap Gilani with contempt charges, directs PM to appear in person on Feb 13; Gilani’s lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan says he will appeal [ Times of India ] SC erases law; Division bench of justices ...

- Adarsh Society writ to defreeze accounts for paying favourite senior lawyers rejected by Bombay High Court: “Nowhere has the SC held that right to legal representation includes right to counsel of one’s choice…” [ TOI ] ( Adarsh has used Vidhii Partners in the past, for example ) - Pak foreign min...