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Today’s post is the first of a series of posts that will be published over many weeks. The posts will chart the journey of the lawyers movement  from 9 March 2007 and its  milestones until the historic judgement of the Supreme Court of Pakistan as delivered on 31 July 2009. This post has been a [...]

The Chief Justice and his brother judges have been restored. The lawyers movement have achieved their goals for the restoration of judges as per the November 2nd position. This is a historic day and the culmination of a great struggle and the first chapter of a new Pakistan. As a passionate supporter of the Chief [...]

The masses are out in force in Lahore and all over the land of the pure as I write this post. My leaders Aitzaz Ahsan, Javed Hashmi to name two have been arrested while Ali Ahmed Kurd and Munir A Malik have been refused permission to leave Quetta and Karachi respectively. Nawaz Sharif has bravely [...]

The up-till-now impotent Gillani government led my Mr 10%  has begun arresting lawyers and political workers ahead of tomorrow’s historic long march. This post is the first of many over the coming days as I urge the Pakistani masses to arise and save Pakistan from ignomy by taking part in the long march. I can [...]

The lawyers movement have done it again. They have done us proud yet again with the principled long march to Islamabad to reinstate the real judiciary. No words are enough to praise this movement, indeed this is a new Pakistan movement led by lawyers who as a collective represent the Quaid-e-Azam in this respect. So [...]

On the eve of the address of the Chief Justice to the various bar associations it is vital for me to once again laud the lawyers movement.No words of praise no matter how lucid and celebratory they may be can ever be enough. The soil of Pakistan salutes them for they have sacrified and toiled [...]

I am deflated at the moment given that the fool in me bought the story hook, line and sinker from the Mush regime regarding the prospect of the Chief Justice reading his Eid prayers at Faisal Mosque. Furthermore the ‘re-arrests’ of our leaders Justice Tariq Mehmood and Aitzaz Ahsan have compounded the pain for all [...]