When Pakistan’s yet another dictator Pervez Musharraf executed his coup against the judiciary on Nov 3, 2007, vandalised the Constitution and conquered the courts once again, it was warned by the likes of Fazlur Rehman and some of the other status-quo mongers that in order to save the system, aggression over judiciary should be considered [...]
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is the real pride for the nation as he is the scion of independence of judiciary in the country. The rulers are afraid that if they reinstated Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry he would not let them commit corruption, and he would not sit idle and take suo moto action against the high-handedness and [...]
As the controversial culmination of the long march has largely sucked the life out of the lawyers movement, and there is no chance of yet another such mass protest, the lawyers top leadership and the PML-N, the champs of the Pro-Nov 2 judiciary are now showing some flexibility for the resolution of the judges issue, [...]
All those months of the lawyers movement are the harbingers of the good days. The valour and the willingness shown by the lawyers throughout this movement is the testimony of the haywire passion of this brave nation, who eventually has stood up for the cause of democracy and the justice. They way the lawyers have [...]
Pakistani politics is an exquisite amalgamation of the unlimited possibilities and bizarre chances. The recent long march of lawyers is an unprecedented gathering in the Pakistan, especially in the Islamabad, that it changed the way we used to expect the outcome of the protest-oriented gatherings.
This long march establishment many new trends and erected many new [...]
For sixteen long months, Aitzaz Ahsan fought for the cause of the judiciary. He not only was rebuked by his own party, he also faced extremely brutal state terrorism during the Pervez Musharraf era. He, despite of sheer hardships didn’t budge an inch from his stance, and successfully kept on hoisting the flag of justice [...]
There is no doubt about the success of the long march, and there is also no doubt about the failure of its ending. The intensity, passion and the overflowing sentiments of the people who thronged the Parade Avenue demanded a befitting end. The way it was abruptly called off not only left clouds of disappointments [...]
Asif Ali Zardari, the co-chairman of Pakistan People’s Party in his infinite wisdom has announced that now people should wait for his long march. He said just that and nothing else why in the world that march would be instigated. In his second breath, he said that PPP is having a working relationship with President [...]
