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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.
1990: Movement for the Restoration of Democracy protests against the government's rigging of elections. [6] 1992: Protests against the demolition of the Babri Masjid in India. [7] 1997: Lawyers' movement protests against the government's attempts to remove the Chief Justice of Pakistan. [8] 1977 Pakistan uprising
Bhurban Accord (also known as the Murree Declaration) was a political agreement signed by two of Pakistan's biggest political powers, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML-N) and was signed by co-chairman of the PPP Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif it was signed on 8 March 2008 in PC Bhurban in the province of Punjab.
The NRO was planned to be presented in the National Assembly but later due to the opposition of several major parties was not presented in the Assembly. According to State Minister for Law Afzal Sindhu in a news conference, the ordinance affected 8,041 people, including 34 politicians and 03 ambassadors. [9]
Ali Ahmad Kurd (Urdu: على احمد كُرد), is a Pakistani lawyer, who served as the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan and was one of the most prominent figures in the Lawyers' Movement of 2007. He opposed the military government of Pervez Musharraf, who ruled the country from 1999 to 2008. [1] [2]
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was hanged 44 year ago after being convicted of murder, didn't get a fair trial.
A group of preeminent conservative lawyers who opposed former president Donald Trump’s efforts to manipulate the legal system are launching a new, long-term project aimed at fostering respect ...
Afridi was a prominent leader in the Lawyers' Movement protests in the late-2000s. [4] [5] [6] On 2 September 2019, Afridi's ANP membership was terminated by Aimal Wali Khan, the party's Khyber provincial president. [7] [8] On 1 September 2021, Afridi became a founding member of the National Democratic Movement (NDM). [9] [10]