Sunday, March 02, 2008

Aitzaz Ahsan, Ali Ahmed Kurd and Tariq Mahmood released.

2 more lawyers released in overture to Pakistan's restive legal community ISLAMABAD, Feb 01, (AP) Pakistani authorities Friday released two more lawyers who had been placed under house arrest three months ago for opposition to President Pervez Musharraf. Firebrand speaker Ali Ahmed Kurd and retired judge Tariq Mahmood were freed in Quetta and in Islamabad after authorities in the two cities decided not to extend their detention.(Posted @ 23:10 PST)


Aitzaz vows to continue struggle for independent judiciary LAHORE, Pakistan, Feb 1 (APP):- Aitzaz Ahsan, president of Supreme Court Bar Association Friday vowed to continue the struggle for reinstatement of deposed judges and an independent judiciary. Addressing the members of Lahore High Court Bar Association which he visited soon after his release after a three- month detention, he said that detention and arrest of lawyers would not discourage the lawyers community. “The journey we started on March 9, 2007 for the independence of judiciary has not yet ended, and Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry as well as other deposed judges are our heroes,” he observed. Aitzaz Ahsan criticised government for creating problems like shortage of wheat flour, electricity, gas and other utililties and said this was owing to negligence of the authorities. “The government should answer why it failed to arrange the postmortem of Benazir Bhutto along with that of other martyred persons of Liaquat Bagh, Rawalpindi tragedy,” he said, adding that it should also explain what's wrong with conducting a probe by United Nations' team.(Posted @ 21:10 PST)


Pakistan SCBA chief addresses lawyers LAHORE, Pakistan, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Pakistan’s Supreme Court Bar Association president Aitzaz Ahsan, who was released late Thursday night after three months detention went to meet hundreds of his lawyer supporters at the Lahore Hight Court on Friday. “Detention cannot dampen our spirits. We can't overlook what's going on in the country,” Ahsan told the lawyers. “I tell Musharraf he should go and the army should go back to barracks,” he said. “I want to assure the nation that Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry will be reinstated,” said Ahsan, who acted as chief counsel for justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, who was purged when Musharraf declared emergency rule, along with dozens of other judges. Meanwhile, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has welcomed Ahsan's release and said his party would not give up its campaign for the restoration of the deposed judges. “The restoration of judges is the first point of our party's manifesto,” Sharif told a meeting of lawyers in the city of Rawalpindi.(Posted @ 16:15 PST)


Aitzaz Ahsan released LAHORE, Pakistan, Feb 1 (Reuters) Aitzaz Ahsan has been released from nearly three months of detention, his wife said Friday. Ahsan, president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, former member of parliament and cabinet minister under assassinated ex-premier Benazir Bhutto, was detained under emergency powers that Musharraf invoked on November 3. “He was released last night,” Ahsan's wife, Bushra, said in Lahore. “He's very upbeat about life. He's very happy. He has gone to Lahore High Court to address the bar.” (Posted @ 12:00 PST)


[Reported by DAWN]

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