Judiciary
The Lawyers Movement – Achievements and Challenges
By Faisal Siddiqi
Advocate
Is it time to write the obituary of the lawyer’s movement? Or will this lawyer’s movement never be defeated because history and truth (and some say, God) is on our side?. The aforementioned responses are the two opposite responses given to the current impasse in the lawyer’s movement. The former response suffers from [...]
Sick of Musharraf lovers - a factual rant
Guest Post by Saira Ansari
I’m very disturbed, disappointed and sick to death to see the amount of facebook’ers on my list who think Musharraf’s leaving has been a catastrophe for Pakistan. Just because a new evil, a.k.a Zardari, is in the house does not mean that the previous evil is now a good man. A [...]
The victory of ‘US lead war against terror’: on US judicial system and human rights
Guest Blog by Silence from Islamabad Observer
A United States court Thursday found American-educated Pakistani doctor Aafia Siddiqi guilty on charges to attack U.S army in Afghanistan as a member of Al-Qaeda, said a statement released from US court. This statement is a declaration of the first defeat of United States judicial system in so-called war [...]
Living with Corruption
Guest Post by Silence
Corruption and governance goes together in developing countries, especially the third world where democratic process is influenced by bloodline, money politics, feudalism, intervention of imperialist powers through military and religious exploitations. The process becomes more painful when the society is trying to develop from under develop, while profiled as ‘high risk investment [...]
Pictures of Dharna in Karachi on 28th August
Pictures of the Dharna in Karachi which was organized by the Karachi Bar Association in conjunction with various political parties and civil society activists. The Dharna started around 12pm noon on M A Jinnah Road and lasted for two hours till 2:00pm. The event was entirely peaceful and various leaders addressed the crowd.
Pictures [...]
Nationwide Dharnas on 28th from 12:00-2:00pm
We apologize for any inconvenience in advance. as the judicial movement has exhausted all avenues for a amicable resolution and with the numerous broken promises by Asif Zardari in regards to Restoration of Judiciary, we feel its important to peacefully send a message and have decided to hold a Dharna for a period of two [...]
Lawyers future strategy for the Restoration of Judiciary
DECISIONS OF THE LAWYERS’ NATIONAL CO-ORDINATION COUNCIL
IN ITS EMERGENT MEETING IN ISLAMABAD
AUGUST 23, 2008.
The Supremacy of The People – An Open Letter To Mr. Zardari
Dear Mr. Zardari,
I am sick and tired of you –and all your party stalwarts- constantly drumming into our ears your ideas about the supremacy of The Parliament. I have yet to hear you talk so forcefully about the supremacy of The Constitution or even of the supremacy of The People as the Bhutto’s used [...]
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 clip: view full post to listen]
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 [...]
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: Monday 11th August
Time: [...]
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 [...]
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 Suddle), [...]
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 one of [...]
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 to [...]
