Pakistani Talk Show Policy Matters with Nasim Zehra discusses some new questions raised by PPP-led govt on independence and judicial activism of the present Judiciary and its Restoration by Executive Order, NAB and NRO, etc.: Guests: Mehreen Anwar Raja (PPP), Babar Sattar (Lawyer), Barrister Akram Sheikh (Ex-Pres SCBA)

Pakistani Talk Show Capital Talk with Hamid Mir: NAB tells Judiciary it has no legal standing. Has the confrontation begun? Guests: Rauf Klasra (Analyst), Sen. Syed Zafar Ali Shah (PML-N), Qazi Muhammad Anwar (Pres SCBA), Mehreen Anwar Raja (PPP)..

Pakistani Talk Show: Najam Sethi conducts exclusive interview with Ch. Aitzaz Ahsan on his role in lawyers’ movement, as counsel for Chief Justice Iftikhar during restoration case, his views on present executive-judiciary tussle, 18th amendment, NRO, NAB, Swiss Cases, etc..

ISLAMABAD: The NAB implementation episode continues to play out in the Supreme Court with the government dragging its feet on invariably every step post December 16 unanimous verdict against NRO.

Published reports say Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry today refused to receive a written reply regarding the appointment of Acting Chairman NAB in the court.

Chief Justice Iftikhar said the written reply should be submitted to the Supreme Court office, Dawnnews reported.

Acting Chairman NAB Javed Qazi and Prosecutor-General drafted a written reply to be submitted to the Supreme Court. However, Advocate-on-Record Chaudhry Akhtar refused to submit the reply due to inappropriate language used in it.

Speaking to DawnNews, Chaudhry Akhtar said that the reply used derogatory language against the judges which was why it could not be submitted to the court.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court (SC) reserved its decision regarding the appointment of Acting Chairman National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Javed Qazi and Prosecutor General of NAB, Geo News reported Wednesday.

The roller-coaster tipsy-turvy see-saw role of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and its status in the PPP-led government? Has NAB lost its teeth and become compliant and a joke? Guests: Fauzia Wahab (PPP), Barrister Akram Sheikh (Ex-Pres SCBA), Sen. Tariq Azeem (PML-Q)

6 July 2010 episode of Pakistani talk show Off The Record discusses whether PML-Nawaz has switched role from a friendly opposition party to a deadly opposition party? What is the direction of PPP-led govt? Corruption, NRO, Judiciary, Swiss Cases, etc. Guests: Asma Arbab Alamgir (PPP), Shiekh Waqas Akram (PML-Q), Hanif Abbasi (PML-N)

The Federal government has dismissed Deputy Attorney General (AG) Amir Rehman from his office.

Federal Law Ministry formally has issued notification and sent it to Dy. AG Amir Rehman, in which it has been written that, “now there is no need of your services any more to the ministry, therefore you are being dismissed from your office.”

Rehman’s sacking comes the same day the Supreme Court asked the Attorney General to direct the law ministry to dispatch the NRO implementation documents to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani by July 12.

SC orders law ministry to dispatch documents

ISLAMABAD: In order to speed up the implementation process of the NRO, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered the law ministry to dispatch the documents to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani by July 12.

In relation to the implementation issue of Supreme Court’s decision on the NRO, the Attorney General appeared in front of a five- member bench and said, “according to the court’s decision the document that was supposed to have been sent by the law ministry to the Supreme Court has still not been received.”

On this the Supreme Court’s five-member bench issued an order that by July 12, the summary should be dispatched to the prime minister otherwise the federal law secretary will have to appear in front of the court personally and justify the reason for its delay.

A 17-member bench of the Supreme Court in their decision on December 16, 2009, had asked the federal government that they write to the Swiss government to reinstate the cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. (DawnNews)

3 July 2010 episode of PAkistani talk show Do Tok carries exclusive interview with Barrister Kamal Azfar (PPP) who gives his views on NRO, Swiss Cases, BB, Zardari, CIA and GHQ being behind conspiracies, Babar Awan as law minister, etc. Says: Musharraf came to power on CIA’s instructions, the worst is over, and that Musharraf should be tried for BB’s murder and Bugti’s murder

1 July 2010 episode of Pakistani Talk Show Off The Record discusses PPP and Supreme Court upcoming confrontation on NRO and whether there is a PML-Nawaz and Supreme Court nexus at all. Guests: Sen. Sardar Latif Khosa (PPPP), Zafar Ali Shah (PML-N), Ansar Abbasi (Analyst)