I read a book recently and a lot of what was written - even though fiction - seemed to be true for Pakistan. The book showed how people from a democratic country, who had gone through a major man-made calamity, grabbed onto the idea of a kingdom in hopes of finding a better leader.
In terms […]

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Source: A Reluctant Mind
On March 24, 2008 the Police Head Constable Ali Hassan Solangi was just leaving the mosque at Malik Petrol Pump located in the jurisdiction of Hattari Police Station Hyderabad, when he was intercepted by four men (identified as Noor Muhammad Shoro, Deedar Shoro and two men from Brohee tribe whom Ali Hassan […]

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This is an account of my parents’ meeting with CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry the day after he was freed from house arrest.
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The Day We Met the Chief Justice of Pakistan
Iftikhar Chaudhry Was Finally Free After Five Months of Confinement
All these years we, my wife and I, used to envy all those people who had met the […]

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Sources: Associated Press & Reuters
Pictures of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry’s departure from his residence in Islamabad, arrival at Quetta airport and welcome rally [CLICK HERE]
On Monday, supporters carried baskets of rose petals to shower Chaudhry at Quetta airport. Hundreds of flag-waving political activists and black-suited lawyers gathered at Quetta’s airport to greet Chaudhry. In the […]

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Source: Gulf News
By Farhan Bokhari
March 30, 2008
In less than a week since Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, the deposed chief justice of the supreme court, was released from effective house arrest, Pakistan’s political landscape has changed rapidly.
The bottom line is apparently that as long as Chaudhry’s future remains uncertain, Pakistan’s future, too, would remain uncertain.
There are many […]

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It is being reported by Aaj TV and Express News that Justice Ramday is being forcefully evicted from his official residence in Islamabad’s Judges Colony. The locks on the gates have been also broken. At the moment lawyers lead by Athar Minallah are talking with the police about this issue outside his house. Justice Ramday has himself been […]

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Source: The New York Times
By JANE PERLEZ
If it was not yet clear to Washington that a new political order prevailed here, the three-day visit this week by America’s chief diplomat dealing with Pakistan should put any doubt to rest.
The visit by Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte turned out to be series of indignities […]

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Source: Chicago Tribune
Smuggling of goods, homework comes to an end—as does boredom
By Kim Barker 
For almost five months, friends smuggled what the family needed over the back wall: mobile phones and phone chips, two birthday cakes, a remote-controlled toy car, extra groceries and homework.
Inside, the two teenage girls and their younger brother rarely opened the curtains […]

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It has just been reported by Geo News that according to the Federal Food Committee, Sindh could be hit by a wheat crisis as there is only one week’s (7 days) wheat stock left. Karachi, Hyderabad and Interior Sindh would be affected.

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Source: Dawn
By Beenisch Kanaria
TUCKED away in Sector F-6, surrounded by a serene residential setting, beside a snug children’s park, lays a small yet very distinct market. Reminiscent of a European high street, this market is one of Islamabad’s dearest and oldest shopping vicinity.This little slice of Europe is Kohsar Market.Kohsar Market has always been immaculately […]

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Source: Daily Times
Sacked Supreme Court chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will visit his hometown of Quetta on March 31 to meet relatives and address Balochistan bar associations, Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Aitzaz Ahsan told reporters on Wednesday.
This announcement came after a meeting of senior lawyers and judges convened at the residence of the […]

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Source: The News
Op-Ed by Wasim Arif

The word “Chaudhrys” remains synonymous in Pakistan today with the effervescent Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and his cousin Pervez Elahi. However, this article is not about either of them.
It centres on the “Other Chaudhrys,” Chief Justice Ifthikhar Muhammed Chaudhry, and his wife and their four children, Arsalan, Ifra, Palvasha and Balaj, […]

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Source: The News
PML-N stalwart Ch Nisar Ali Khan is in two minds as he cannot decide which ministry he should head at this critical moment of his political life.
The choice is between his favourite and the most lucrative petroleum ministry, for the third time, or become the defence minister of Pakistan to take sadistic pleasure […]

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Source: The News
Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada, the legal architect of almost every PCO which repeatedly subverted the Constitution, has been finally removed from his job along with other advisers and special assistants of the past military regime.
The outgoing cabinet secretary, SM Alam Rizvi, told The News on Tuesday that the Cabinet Division had issued a notification […]

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Source: Asian Tribune
By Adnan Gill
A nation’s path to success and maturity can be measured by its performance in Olympics. More importantly, its character can be judged by how it treats its heroes. However, the nations determined to leave their mark on history turn their ordinary citizens into idols. India seems to have mastered the art […]

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Source: The News
Some top legal aides of PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari have approached certain active members of the lawyers’ community to discuss a formula for the restoration of the deposed judges, which surprisingly does not include Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
Justice (retd) Tariq Mehmud confirmed to The News that this strange formula called the […]

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Dawn Op-Ed by Adil Zareef
AS the incumbent government gears up to meet myriad challenges, Mangal Bagh is becoming the new recurring nightmare in the NWFP. He left a trail of bloodshed, pillage and mayhem when he attacked unarmed villagers in Sheikhan, near Peshawar, and demolished a 16th century shrine. Mangal Bagh later forced the famous […]

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Source: The News
The Bush administration and the world was deliberately and systematically presented a mutilated and distorted image of the deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, according to well planned strategy of the Presidency so that Washington may not raise serious objections when the Nov 3 coup against the judges was carried out.
The main objective […]

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Source: The News
The security forces deployed in front of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry’s house in the Judges Enclave in Islamabad will be removed on Tuesday evening, marking the symbolic end of an era when absolute power was enjoyed by one man for eight years, five months and 13 days.
Power practically will be shifted to […]

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Dear All,
Aitzaz Ahsan has given a call to observe Black Flag Week in Pakistan. Everyone is requested to show their solidarity for the restoration of the independent Judiciary in Pakistan. You can watch the message (with English subtitles) at:
The Emergency Times or  Teeth Maestro
Here are a couple of things you can do:
1) Record a small video […]

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Source: Geo News
Lawyers leader Ali Ahmed Kurd was released from house arrest Tuesday after remaining under detention for 4 months.
“Today is a bid day for the lawyers and journalists communities,” said Ali Ahmed Kurd while talking to media after he was set free from 4-month detention.
Garlanded by the lawyers and civil society members after release, […]

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Source: The News
After keeping the 83-year-old father-in-law of the deposed chief justice of Pakistan waiting for five hours and then allowing him to meet his daughter and grand children for only 10 minutes on Sunday, the law enforcement agencies did not let the sister-in-law of Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to see the detained justice’s family […]

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Source: The News
FORMER Federal Minster for Commerce, Humayun Akhtar Khan, in his last year of tenure, allegedly issued over 300 import licences for weapons.
In his last year as minister, he issued over 300 new licences for shotgun import, worth over Rs 450 million, as compared to the past figure of only 80 licences, worth only […]

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Source: Dawn
One reason why the performance claim to victory of the PML-Q did not work was its utter hollowness it was all propaganda without substance on the ground.
The former Punjab chief minister, Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, must have spent millions on media campaign to publicise his so-called “Paraha likha Punjab”, myth but the situation on the […]

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Source: Earthtimes
Press Release
WASHINGTON, March 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Amnesty International USA will host a discussion with important leaders of the Pakistan lawyers’ movement on Tuesday, March 4, at 5:30 p.m. at the organization’s Washington, DC office. Some of the lawyers were imprisoned, and even abused, in the wake of President Pervez Musharraf’s crackdown on judicial officials […]

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