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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.
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.
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.
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.
[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 ...
Hamid Khan is married to Gulnaz Khan and has three sons and one daughter. One of his sons, Sikandar, is also a lawyer. Hamid Khan has six granddaughters (Rubeena, Malaak, Paniz, Saviz, Shiza and Sophia). His daughter-in-law, Shirin Sadeghi, is an Al-Jazeera English contributor. She is married to his third son, Dilawar.
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 ...
Latif Khosa (Urdu: لطیف کھوسہ; born 25 July 1946) is a Pakistani lawyer and politician (sitting MNA) who is an advocate in the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He served as the Governor of Punjab from 2011 to 2013.