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Peshawar High Court 26 Oct 2026 C.R No. 451-A of 2026 Civil
Mst. Bibi Khateeb-un-Nisa Vs Abdul Rasheed.
2026 PHC 6998
(a) The petitioners, being the persons seeking a declaration against an existing revenue transaction, were required to substantiate their allegations through affirmative, reliable and convincing evidence. Fraud is a serious allegation, which cannot be presu...
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Peshawar High Court 23 Oct 2026 W.P No. 3804-P of 2026 Civil
Mst. Sana Saeed Vs Ibrar Ali
2026 PHC 6968
The cumulative effect of the principles laid down in the judgments referred to above is that a decree for recovery of gold ornaments, or their alternative monetary value, is not merely a money decree simpliciter, but primarily contemplates delivery of the d...
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Peshawar High Court 22 Oct 2026 R.F.A No. 288-A of 2026 Civil
Govt and others Vs Noman Aslam and others
2026 PHC 6986
Sections 2(c) and 2(n) of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Consumers Protection Act, 1997, protect consumers who purchase goods or hire services for consideration. However, the broad definition of “services” must be interpreted in light of the Act’s purpose and canno...
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Peshawar High Court 21 Oct 2026 W.P No. 203-M of 2024 Service
Sajid Ali Khan & others Vs DEO(F) Dir Lower & others
2026 PHC 7023
Civil Servants Act (LXXI of 1973), Ss. 2(b) & 11 — Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Civil Servants Retirement Benefits and Death Compensation Act (X of 2014), Ss. 8 & 9(3) — Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199 — Death compensation — Ad hoc employee — Eligibility. An emplo...
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Peshawar High Court 16 Oct 2026 B.A No. 459-B of 2026 Criminal
Waleed Khan Vs The State etc.
2026 PHC 7009
Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898) — S. 497(2) — Pakistan Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 302, 324, 34 — Post-arrest bail — Further inquiry — Single firearm injury — Forensic evidence — Alleged abscondence. The petitioner sought post-arrest bail in a case un...
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Peshawar High Court 15 Oct 2026 W.P No. 1101-B of 2019 Constitutional
Muazam Ahmad Vs Sosan Zarif etc
2026 PHC 6918
Writ Petition Held: Constitution of Pakistan, 1973---Article 199---Muslim Family Laws Ordinance, 1961---Sections 7 and 8---Family Courts Act, 1964---Section 17---Qanun-e-Shahadat Order, 1984---Article 164---Dissolution of marriage---Khula and talaq---Distin...
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Peshawar High Court 15 Oct 2026 Cr. Misc. B.A No. 683-A of 2026 Criminal
Abdul Hadi Vs The State
2026 PHC 6724
A tentative assessment of the record reveals unexplained delay in reporting the matter to the police, while the medico-legal evidence does not clearly corroborate the allegation of sexual assault. Although absence of medical corroboration is not conclusive,...
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Peshawar High Court 14 Oct 2026 W.P No. 5326-P of 2026 Constitutional
Umar Farooq Vs Saif-ur-Rehman & others
2026 PHC 6764
Custody of Minor Son: Both Father and Mother contracted second marriage: Paramount Consideration: The foremost consideration in all matters relating to the custody of a minor is his welfare, which must prevail over the competing claims, personal interests o...
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Peshawar High Court 12 Oct 2026 W.P No. 5117-P of 2023 with CM No. 2732-P of 2025 Constitutional
Ali Sher and others Vs Munir and others
2026 PHC 6960
(a) Code of Civil Procedure (CPC, 1908)--- ----Order VII, Rule 11---Rejection of Plaint---Scope, Governing Principles, and Material to be Examined at Inception. --- For the purposes of clauses (a) and (d) of Order VII, Rule 11, CPC, the court must strictly ...
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Peshawar High Court 12 Oct 2026 W.P No. 10762-P of 2026 Civil
Maryam Tariq Vs Tariq Hussain and others
2026 PHC 6899
1. A suit for partition with respect to a constructed property before the civil Court would only be maintainable if there is unity of title and unity of possession between the parties w.r.t. property under partition; however, if any of the impleaded party c...
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Peshawar High Court 8 Oct 2026 C.R No. 189-P of 2017 Civil
Rehmant Ullah Vs Aman Ullah (deceased) through L.Rs and others
2026 PHC 6912
Core Legal Issue 1. Whether a consanguine paternal uncle (Am-li-ab) excludes agnatic cousins / full paternal uncle's sons (Ibn Am-Aani) under the Islamic Law of Inheritance (ilm-ul-Faraid). 2. Whether a clerical misdescription in an inheritance mutation reg...
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Peshawar High Court 8 Oct 2026 Cr.A No. 781-P of 2019 Criminal
Behlol Ehsan Vs Mehammad Shahwaid
2026 PHC 6772
i. It is true that the present case involves a single accused and that substitution of an innocent person for the actual offender, particularly where only one person is nominated, may ordinarily be regarded as an uncommon phenomenon. Nevertheless, the mere ...
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Peshawar High Court 7 Oct 2026 Cr.A No. 979-P of 2025 with connected Cr. Rev N... Criminal
Akhtar Gul Vs The State & another (Connected: "Inam Ullah Vs Akhtar Gul & another")
2026 PHC 6814
(a) Penal Code (1860) & Criminal Procedure Code (1898)-- Ss. 302(b), 302(c) PPC & S. 410 CrPC---Appreciation of Evidence---Single Principal Assailant---Substitution vs. Nomination---Test of Related Eyewitnesses--- In a criminal case involving a single princ...
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Peshawar High Court 7 Oct 2026 C.R No. 824-P of 2024 Civil
Abdul Raziq and another Vs Adnan Khan and 02 others
2026 PHC 6662
Section 10 CPC Section 10 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, prohibits the trial of a subsequently instituted suit where the matter in issue is directly and substantially the same as that in a previously instituted suit between the same parties, or parti...
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Peshawar High Court 6 Oct 2026 Cr.A No. 225-A of 2025 Criminal
Mashal Vs The State
2026 PHC 6708
The homicidal deaths of both deceased stand established through medical evidence; however, the prosecution was required to prove beyond reasonable doubt the participation and individual criminal responsibility of the accused. The complainant was admittedly ...
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Peshawar High Court 5 Oct 2026 W.P No. 6280-P of 2026 Constitutional
Meer Aftab Vs Federation of Pakistan through Secretary Interior Federal Secretary Islamabad and others.
2026 PHC 6951
A CNIC of a citizen can only be blocked or digitally impounded under section 18 of the NADRA Ordinance, 2000, when any of the grounds mentioned in subsection (2) thereof is available in a case. A CNIC cannot be impounded for penalising a person or compellin...
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Peshawar High Court 5 Oct 2026 Cr. A No. 144-A of 2026 Criminal
Muhammad Javed Sadiq and others Vs Husnain Shah and others
2026 PHC 6425
(a)It is a settled principle of criminal administration of justice that once an accused is acquitted of the charge, the initial presumption of innocence stands reinforced and such presumption cannot lightly be displaced in an appeal against acquittal. Where...
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Peshawar High Court 5 Oct 2026 Cr. Misc (Q) No. 04-A of 2026 Criminal
Sanaullah and others Vs The State
2026 PHC 6418
The central issue was whether the shortcomings and inconsistencies identified by the learned trial Court, which resulted in extending the benefit of doubt to respondent No.4, could independently justify a finding that the petitioners had deliberately plante...
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Peshawar High Court 5 Oct 2026 Cr.Misc (Q) No. 03-A of 2026 Criminal
Buland Iqbal Vs The State
2026 PHC 6411
The pivotal question was not whether the acquittal of respondent No.4 was justified, but whether the material before the learned trial Court was sufficient to conclude that the petitioner had deliberately or vexatiously fabricated a narcotics case so as to ...
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Peshawar High Court 2 Oct 2026 C.R No. 977-P of 2023 Civil
Chief Executive Officer, PESCO, WAPDA House, Peshawar and others Vs Syed Ayub Shah and others.
2026 PHC 6694
i. Where a plaintiff has neither personally appeared in the witness box in support of his plaint to record his statement on oath, nor he has been represented by an attorney thereof, then such suit cannot be decreed in favor of such plaintiff, so much so tha...
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