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Today lawyers across Pakistan have observed a black day in marking four years since the imposition of Musharraf’s martial law on 3 November 2007. On that day Pakistan’s judiciary including the Chief Justice of Pakistan were sacked and placed under house arrest for a detention that lasted months whilst the lawyers leaders like Munir A Malik [...]

Pictures are said to say a thousand words, as they clearly do above. President Zardari is in dire of a prayer after the events of February 13. The sacrificial black lambs that are legendary in the confines of the Presidency, will be needed aplenty to ward off the evil and the folly of the President’s actions in [...]

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 [...]

Photo: Daily Times The hijra community or eunuchs of Pakistan are full of glee as shown above and indeed so am I at the decision of the Chief Justice to register all eunuchs with the Social Welfare Department with a view to protecting their human rights.  The case has been well reported in Dawn and [...]

I have been in a jovial mood of late, singing a tune even smiling obviously delighted that the Chief Justice has been restored. After a long period of time I can truly say that I am so proud to be a Pakistani, after all this is a new Pakistan we are shaping today one full [...]

On November 3 2007 General Musharraf imposed martial law in Pakistan. On that black day Other Pakistan went black and set up a dedicated martial law page as seen below and here: 507 days later martial law has ended as Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry has finally sat in court number one of the Supreme Court. [...]

Injustice Dog(gar) of martial law fame left the Dog(gar) court yesterday standing diminished and degraded just like Musharraf before him. We can  never forget that these midgets of men collaborated as per a Devil’s pact to create an unconstitutional regime in all its evil ushering in once again the dark night of dictatorship and injustice [...]

U2′s classic tune ‘beautiful day’ is ringing in my ear and indeed it is a beautiful day for Pakistan after the Chief Justice has been restored. I am a happy man today with a spring in my step, humming a song here and there and full of joy. To put it simply March 16 was the greatest [...]

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 Holy Quran says that ‘with hardship goeth ease’. Hardship has passed I hope and ease is now just around the corner vis a vis the struggle to restore the Chief Justice. I still await the public announcement from Prime Minister Gillani that the Chief Justice and his brother judges have been restored.  The delay [...]