44,500 cases are pending before SC.

KARACHI -- Over 44,500 cases are pending before the Supreme Court of Pakistan while the apex court disposed of more than 850 cases over the past one-and-a-half months.

According to the SC statistics, over 1,200 new cases had been filed with the Supreme Court from April 1 to May 15 and total pending cases stood at 44,658 on May 15.

During the first half of the current month, 562 new cases were filed and 366 cases were decided during the same period.

The principal seat of the apex court in Islamabad decided 154 cases between May 1 and May 15, the Lahore registry disposed of 141 cases and the Karachi registry decided 71 cases while no case was decided at the Peshawar and Quetta registries during this period.

Similarly, the principal seat of the apex court received 256 cases: 169 cases were filed at the Lahore registry, 82 at the Karachi registry, 32 cases were received at the Quetta registry and 23 cases were instituted at the Peshawar registry from May 1 to May...