Like CIA and ISI left Taliban after using them, Aitzaz Ahsan and Nawaz Sharif left the lawyers in the cold. Judges got restored with all the perks, power and privileges and Aitzaz Ahsan received laurels and so was Ali Ahmad Kurd, Munir A Malik and other leaders.
But there were lawyers who sacrificed their profession, clients, [...]
“We have been left out in the cold.” said Qurban Ali Advocate glumly outside his dilapidated chamber in district court. He added, “We worked day and night for the restoration of the chief justice, we ruined our earnings, we ruined our families, we neglected our wives and kids, we were on the roads all the [...]
“Something’s Amiss” as the famous detective Sherlock Holmes would have retorted would he have been presented the case of the peaceful community of lawyers turning into brutes.
The events that have happened over the past few weeks need no explanation. Every child in this beloved country of ours has witnessed the lawyers getting out of hand [...]
Aitzaz Ahsan just cannot stop earning more respect from me.By proving to be a man of principles yet again , he’s climbed a step higher in my eyes.As a token of protest against the lawyers’ violence towards journalists , Mr. Ahsan has announced that he will consider himself suspended from the lahore high court bar [...]
EVER since the restoration of the Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary, incidents of lawyers’ scuffle with the staff of other departments have increased. There was a scene with the staff of the Revenue department Mianwali and then a similar incident at Faisalabad, soon it was followed by the scene with the Police at Sargodha when [...]
Beginning with the 3rd March attack on the SriLankan team that brought yet another embarrassment to the nation ,the month of March had a lot to offer.The undemocratic step of imposing section 144 to curb the Long march proved to be futile as the determined lawyers,the champions of human rights and the stalwarts of democracy [...]
Its first time Chief Justice is going to office when there is no iftikhar_ch_01military rule in this country ,and thus different situations have different approaches.
Chief Justice surely would have this point in mind but most of us who have seen Judicial activism before March,9,07 and after 20 July 07 tend to forget it.
There are great [...]
By the evening of 15 March 2009, the Government had realized that it had lost the battle and had no option other than to concede the demand of the lawyers, the civil society and the opposition parties that the judiciary of 2 November 2007, with Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry as the Chief Justice, be restored through [...]
March has been the month of resolutions and change for the Pakistanis. This is the month of revolutions of all colors, red or velvet. On 23rd March, 1940, All India Muslim League held its annual session at Minto Park, Lahore and passed the historical Pakistan resolution.
The Pakistan Resolution stated: “No constitutional plan would be workable [...]
