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Benazir Bhutto, accompanied by her husband Zardari and son Bilawal, US visit in 1989, during Bhutto's government. After the dismissal of Benazir Bhutto's first government on 6 August 1990 by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan on grounds of corruption, the government of Pakistan issued directives to its intelligence agencies to investigate the allegations.
The Lawyers' Movement, also known as the Movement for the Restoration of Judiciary or the Black Coat Protests, was the popular mass protest movement initiated by the lawyers of Pakistan in response to the former president and army chief Pervez Musharraf's actions of 9 March 2007 when he unconstitutionally suspended Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as the chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court.
[17] [18] He belongs to the Zardari family and is the only son of Hakim Ali Zardari, a tribal chief and prominent landowner, and Bilquis Sultana Zardari. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] His paternal grandmother was of Iraqi descent, [ 21 ] while his mother was the granddaughter of Hassan Ali Effendi , a Sindhi educationist with Turkish roots who is known as the ...
Asif Ali Zardari (born 1955), former President of Pakistan and husband of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto Hakim Ali Zardari , (1930–2011), a Pakistani politician and father of Asif Ali Zardari Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (born 1988), chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party, son of Asif Ali Zardari and Benazir Bhutto
Leslie Hope Abramson (born October 6, 1943) is a retired [1] American criminal defense attorney best known for her role in the legal defense of Lyle and Erik Menendez. [2] She is also a published author.
Asif Ali Zardari succeeded Musharraf as president, but also postponed Chaudhry's restoration. This led to the Lawyers' Movement culminating in the Long March by Zardari's political rival Sharif, and the restoration of the Chaudhry-led judiciary on 22 March 2009. Chaudhry stepped down on 12 December 2013.
It Later emerged from Leaked American Diplomatic Cables that Shahbaz Sharif was secretly telling Zardari and Americans that "the future of the then-non-functional chief justice was up for negotiation" and PMLN just wanted a face saving exit. Shahbaz said Chaudhry was a problematic judge whose powers would need to be carefully curtailed.
Both were considered close to Benazir Bhutto and sidelined under the new leadership of Asif Ali Zardari, along with her other close advisers. [ 6 ] Since Benazir Bhutto's death, many of the party workers who were close to her lost their positions in the Zardari government, including party worker and leader of the lawyers movement in Pakistan ...