ISLAMABAD (April 21 2008): Pakistan Peoples Party Secretary Finance, Senator Babar Awan has said that he is going to make a movie depicting the true face of Islam in response to the release of the blasphemous film by a Dutch parliamentarian. Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, Senator Babar Awan said that being a […]
ISLAMABAD: A group of lawyers from the United Kingdom on Sunday said they could move the British court against the MQM chief Altaf Hussain if concrete evidence was available against his involvement in the April 9 burning of lawyers in Karachi. The group of lawyers led by Barrister Sibghatullah Kadri, chairman UK Lawyers Committee for […]
ISLAMABAD, April 20: The government has finalised the draft of a resolution for reinstatement of all deposed judges, including Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, PPP sources told Dawn on Sunday. The sources said that the resolution would be presented in the National Assembly within a week and all deposed judges of superior courts would be reinstated. […]
PESHAWAR, April 19: The kidnappers of Pakistan’s ambassador to Afghanistan have come up with a demand for the release of a key Taliban leader and a few other Pakistani and Afghan colleagues, a highly placed source told Dawn on Saturday. Earlier during the day Al Arabiya television ran a videotape featuring ambassador Tariq Azizuddin’s message […]
KARACHI (APP) – PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari would be conferred a human rights award, announced Aqil Lodhi advocate, President of Lawyers Committee for Human Rights Pakistan and Chairman of Human Rights Committee of Sindh Bar Council. According to a Press release issued here Friday, the award will be conferred on Zardari at a simple […]
KARACHI, April 17: Lawyers’ representatives warned the government on Thursday against reported moves to curtail the terms of chief justices of the superior courts. Addressing a general body meeting of the Sindh High Court Bar Association, SHCBA President and Pakistan Bar Council member Rasheed A. Razvi, Sindh Bar Council member Salahuddin Khan Gandapur and PML-N […]
KARACHI, April 16: The Sindh Assembly, in its first regular session, adopted the Sindh Public Service Commission (Amendment) Bill 2008 with a majority after a brief discussion. WednesdayÂ’s session also saw the return of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement to the house, along with the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional, PML-Q and National People’s Party, after the parties […]
RAWALPINDI, April 16: The objective of the lawyers’ movement is not only the reinstatement of certain judges but also the independence of judiciary that is possible only if all November 3 unconstitutional steps of President Pervez Musharraf are annulled. This was stated by High Court Bar Association President Sardar Asmatullah while delivering a lecture on […]
President, Malir Bar Association (MBA), Amanullah Khan, has ended his hunger strike on the appeal of deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP), Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, on Tuesday. The deposed CJP, in his telephonic address to the MBA, requested the president to give up his protest and leave the issue to God. He said that those […]
THE Lawyers Coordinating Committee has announced to observe Thursday as “Shuhada-e-Karachi Day” and that it would fully activate and participate in the Thursday’s weekly rally. In a meeting held on Tuesday at Punjab Bar Council, the members of the committee demanded an independent inquiry into the Karachi calamity by ‘deposed’ judges and that the culprits […]
During his tour of Ghotki, Dr Naseem Ashraf, Head of the National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) was surprised to find out that his driver was a teacher. The NCHD seems to be one of the prime failures of the previous governments as it has not only failed to achieve it targets, it has also […]
ISLAMABAD, April 15: Parties in the ruling coalition have reached an understanding on reinstating the deposed judges through a parliamentary resolution within the timeframe given in the Bhurban Declaration. Sources said Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif and Awami National Party president Asfandyar Wali Khan on Tuesday finalised […]
ISLAMABAD – The National Assembly Tuesday passed a unanimous resolution strongly condemning publication of blasphemous sketches of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) in newspapers of Denmark and release of provocative and derogatory documentary on Islam by a Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilder. The resolution moved by the Minister for Information Ms Sherry Rehman was unanimously adopted by […]
HYDERABAD, April 14: Sindh Tarraqi Pasand Party chairman Dr Qadir Magsi has said that independence of the judiciary will be ‘meaningless’ without reinstatement of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Choudhry and other deposed judges and democracy will be ‘irrelevant’ without independence of the judiciary. He stressed the need for upholding supremacy of the Constitution and said […]
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