(LONG MARCH) What Has Kept CJ Out Of Office?
Each and every Pakistani has been haunted by the phantom of free, fair and transparent judiciary, especially for the last two years. The way lawyers, combined with civil and political forces rose, made it clear that for the last 60 years, either the judiciary was simply non-existent […]

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Source: Associated Press
By SADAQAT JAN
Pakistan’s new government has paid the salaries of the Supreme Court justices ousted by President Pervez Musharraf last year, a move the governing coalition says highlights its commitment to reinstating the judges, officials said Tuesday.
Restoring the judges to the bench, a key demand of protesting lawyers, could endanger Musharraf’s presidency. The […]

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Source: Hindustan Times
Lahore: Inside the Lahore High Court compound, a meeting of select lawyers from across Pakistan is taking place to decide their next course of action. Their objective: to restore judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf in November 2007.
Outside the compound, journalists and lawyers patiently await the end of the meeting, gossiping and talking […]

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Source: International Herald Tribune
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s party will join lawyers in street protests next month to press for the restoration of judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf, a spokesman said Sunday, a move that could further strain the unraveling coalition government.
Leaders of the Pakistan lawyers’ movement said Saturday they will organize a “long […]

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Source: Chicago Tribune
Move could give lift to new government
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s ruling parties apparently have agreed how to restore the judges fired by President Pervez Musharraf last fall, potentially resolving the most contentious issue facing the fledgling government and preventing the fragile coalition from collapsing.
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, leader of the second-largest party […]

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Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistan’s ruling coalition has failed to agree on a plan to restore judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf, but will reinstate them “soon”, former premier Nawaz Sharif said Tuesday.
Sharif, the head of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party, held two days of talks with Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain opposition […]

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Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistan’s new government may reinstate judges sacked by embattled President Pervez Musharraf by the end of this month, a party in the ruling coalition said on Monday.
The comment came as Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, met fellow coalition leader and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif […]

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Source: Rise of Pakistan
LAHORE: Noor Muhammad Awan, counsel for Dr Sher Afgan Niazi, has declared an FIR registered by the police against 44 lawyers on charges of attack on Dr Sher Afgan fake and baseless.
Noor Muhammad Awan advocate said this at an emergent press conference held here at the Punjab Bar Council in the presence […]

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Source: All Headline News
Siddique Islam - AHN South Asia Correspondent
Karachi, Pakistan (AHN) - At least eight people were killed and 15 others wounded when rival groups of lawyers clashed in the country’s southern port city on Wednesday. More than 50 vehicles have been torched in several areas of Karachi.
Gun-wielding men on motorcycles opened fire at […]

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Source: Teeth Maestro
This evening in yet another embarrassing move, a rowdy crowd physically assaulted Ex-Minister Sher afghan in Lahore. Though the blame is being placed on the Lawyers (MQM desperately wants to pin the blame on Lawyers and Civil Society) but it is apparent that the rowdy crowd dressed in plains clothes (not lawyers) thrashed […]

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Whenever, there is a sucide attack in Pakistan, Musharaf blindly points his finger at the people of Waziristan or Baluchistan. When people in North West Frontier hold arms against his Un-Islamic idealogies, he calls them ‘terrorists’ and ‘extremists’ and seek the support of ‘Uncle Sam’. When thousands of lawyers and judges ask Musharaf to go and […]

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Countdown To Restoration of Judiciary in Pakistan

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It is undoubtful to say that free judiciary is the backbone of Democracy. In order to get free Judiciary there is urgent need to completely overahaul the judicial system. In today Judiciary there is no need to hire the services of Lawyer. Pay more and hire the Judge and you will be 100% sure to […]

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Source: The Wall Street Journal
International politics typically falls way outside the Law Blog’s long-arm statute. But in the last six months we’ve been keeping a close eye on Pakistan, partly because an unbelievable drama is unfolding as the U.S.-backed president, Pervez Musharraf, faces mounting political opposition. But mostly because, among the country’s many rifts is […]

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There has been much talk about the independence of the judiciary. Certainly there is much need for this independence because rulers in the past have been influencing the judiciary for their own ends and some members of the judiciary too have helped the rulers with their judgments perhaps to please them.
Lawyers have launched a movement […]

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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: 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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Pakistani lawyers have now been protesting over what they believe is “independence of the judiciary” and for the restoration of deposed judges. These protests have gone on now for about 10 months or   300 days which is close to a year. The protests have included rallies, processions, bar meetings etc but most of all “boycott of […]

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Source: The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani lawyers began a nationwide boycott of the courts Monday to pressure the president to reinstate senior judges he sacked under a state of emergency more than three months ago.
The boycott was called by the Pakistan Bar Council, the country’s main lawyers’ group, and is to continue through […]

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Source: The News International
Supreme Court Bar Association’s President Ch Aitzaz Ahsan and its former chief Tariq Mehmood were again put under house arrest for another 30 days on Saturday after a brief period of their free movement.
Ch Aitzaz Ahsan after a freedom of movement for two days was again confined to the four walls of […]

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Source: Dawn
A pro-democracy activist was slapped by the security guard of a private college on the canal in Muslim Town while distributing anti-government flyers among students, witnesses said.
Rahim Haq, a teaching assistant at the Punjab University’s Department of Sociology, was trying to mobilise students of the college owned by the Lahore’s nazim for a pro-democracy […]

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Source: The News International
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Part III
Op-Ed by Dr Tariq Hassan
Saturday, February 02, 2008
So how should this problem be approached? In a scenario as seemingly bleak as this, the players have no choice but to change the rules of the game. It is incumbent upon the legal community […]

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Source: The News International
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Part II
Op-Ed by Dr Tariq Hassan
Friday, February 01, 2008
The final option for legal restoration may be through legislative action by the new parliament. With the strong-arm tactics of the present government and the rumors of pre-poll rigging already doing the rounds, the next parliament is likely to […]

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Source: The News International
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Part I
Op-Ed by Dr Tariq Hassan
Thursday, January 31, 2008
On March 9, 2007, the legal community started its struggle for the independence of judiciary. Since then, this struggle has evolved into a debate about the restoration of the deposed judges and the correlation between their restoration and democracy in […]

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Source: The News International
Besides the Lawyers community, the HRCP and the People’s Resistance to also take part in the protest
The lawyers community will stage a protest demonstration on Thursday to celebrate “Iftikhar Day” at the Karachi Press Club (KPC) to express solidarity with the deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
The call […]

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