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Category: Judiciary

  • STRATFOR: Army ‘Not Supporting’ Musharraf

    Strategic Forecasting, Inc. shares an article on Pakistan as well as a short podcast on the same subject Stratfor Podcast on Pakistan 7th August 2008 – [audio:Stratfor_Podcast.mp3] PAKISTAN: MUSHARRAF, IMPEACHMENT AND ISLAMABAD’S TRAJECTORY After some four months of disagreements over the fate of President Pervez Musharraf, the two main partners in Pakistan’s coalition government —…

  • NY: Afia Siddiqui court hearing, Monday 11th Aug @ 2:30 pm

    We are being informed that the first court hearing of Dr. Afia Siddiqui where she is being tried on charges of assaulting an officer is scheduled for Monday 11th August at the Magistrate Court in Downtown Manhattan Dr. Afia’s Hearing in New York Location: Magistrate Court, Downtown Manhattan, 500 Pearl St. 5th Floor (MAP) Date:…

  • People’s Resistance – Welcomes Judges to Karachi

    The People’s Resistance (PR) welcomes Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, a symbol of constitutionalism, to the city of Karachi. We salute the Chief Justice and all those honorable judges who upheld the constitution of Pakistan by saying “NO” to the illegal Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO). Together they stood for the voice of their conscience, sacrificing their…

  • Sharifuddin Pirzada seeks Justice

    Dawn newspaper published a story today about the arrest of a few NAB officials who were arrested for beating an accused ‘within the premises of the Supreme Court’ whats interesting to read in the report was the fact that Dogar Court was actually responding to a petition filed by ‘Judicial King Pins’ like Sharifuddin Pirzada,…

  • Update on ASP Shahid Hayat rumor

    After the publication of our latest Rumor Mill report which concerned the alleged pardoning of the Police officer involved in the murder of Murtaza Bhutto by the Dogar Court, we very soon received a confirmation report from another credible source who states Yes, all the police officers implicated in the Murtaza Bhutto case (including Shoaib…

  • Rumor Mill: ASP involved in Murtaza Bhutto’s murder compensated by Dogar Court

    This rumor report has been submitted by a credible source, naturally more investigation is still needed Last night at a wedding a very senior government officer narrated to me a strange story. He said that he has seen a Supreme Court document, which is a decision on the application of ASP Shahid Hayat who was…

  • Arrested, Released, Happy and Startled – Karachi Lawyers/Left/Civil Movement Protest

    Guest Post by Riaz Ahmed of International Socialist of Pakistan We were released around 12:05am after being arrested at 10:55pm on July 17. It was a fantastic experience. Everyone managed to force the police to spoil the Doger show. Imposed as Cheif Justice of Supreme Court on Nov 3 by General Musharraf Doger is trying…

  • Brief Account: Sindh High Court demo and arrests

    A major show of renewed vigor, strength and conviction in the lawyer and civil society movement for judiciary was demonstrated outside Sind High Court this evening. 23 lawyers and civil society members were brutalized and arrested out of over 250 while they were holding a peaceful protest on self-proclaimed Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar’s visit…

  • Pictures of Sindh High Court Arrest

  • Arrests outside Sindh High Court

    Several lawyers and civil society activists have been arrested while protesting against PCO judge Dogar’s visit to the Sindh High Court on Thursday night. Those arrested include Naeem Qureshi of Karachi Bar Association, K.K. Javed, Salahuddin Ahmed, Riaz Ahmed, Noor, Ayub Qureshi, Noman Qadir, Samina Noman and Anis Haroon. They area reportedly being taken to…

  • True independence of institutions or just a ‘job’

    Guest Blog by Amjad Malik On 5th of May 2007 Lahore High Court Bar gathered a storm where deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan was facing trial on charges of misconduct, came to the city with a procession of lawyers and won the day. He won the hearts and minds of lay Pakistanis for just saying…

  • Whatever is to become of the Movement for Justice

    a letter to activists of the People’s Resistance by Dr. Awab Alvi One issue which we all have dodged to question ourselves, is to decide what is acceptable when the powers-to-be talk about the ‘conditional’ restoration of the judiciary, either in the form of the much trumpeted 60-point constitutional package or separately. For me, this…

  • Pakistan; The Ongoing “Soft Revolution” towards a “Welfare State” – Part II

    Guest Post by Silence Part I of this series can be read here The first Cultural Revolution in history of sub-continent was the Sufi movement, from the 13th century A.D. Sufism increasingly attracted the creative social and intellectual energies within the community and with the passage of time it acquired new dimensions and began to…

  • Pakistan; The Ongoing “Soft Revolution” towards a “Welfare State” – Part I

    Guest Post by Silence A welfare state is a government that provides for the welfare, or the well-being, of its citizens completely. Such a government is involved in citizens’ lives at every level. It provides for physical, material, and social needs rather than the people providing for their own. The purpose of the welfare state…

  • Long March and… a new generation learns to Mobilize

    Burhan and Riaz Ahmed International Socailists of Pakistan History made an entire cross section of civil society of Pakistan learned and transformed from its own struggle against rules from above. Long march ended today at 6 am with thousands of agitators sending a strong message to those in corridor of power that they know how…