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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.
On 12 March 2007, lawyers started a campaign called Judicial Activism across Pakistan and began boycotting all court procedures in protest against the suspension. In Islamabad, as well as other cities such as Lahore, Karachi, and Quetta hundreds of lawyers dressed in black suits attended rallies, condemning the suspension as unconstitutional.
Diyawadanage Don Nandasiri Priyantha Kumara [2] was a resident of Ganemulla, Gampaha District, Sri Lanka.He was the youngest of six siblings. [11] He graduated from the University of Peradeniya in 2002 as a production engineer and had been working in Pakistan since 2010.
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
Husain Haqqani (حُسَین حقّانی; born 1 July 1956, alternately spelled Hussain Haqqani) is a Pakistani [1] journalist, academic, political activist, [2] and former ambassador of Pakistan to Sri Lanka and the United States.
Ali Herischi, a lawyer in Washington, D.C. representing 11 Iranians in the camp said his clients were each given a three-minute phone call by the Red Cross in Panama on Tuesday to speak with their ...
Pakistan offered training to Sri Lanka for intelligence gathering. [19] Apart from traditional military assistance to Sri Lanka, Pakistan has also offered to train Sri Lanka Police and State Intelligence Service (SIS) officers. Pakistan over the years has provided military munitions and systems to assist Sri Lanka in its Civil War with the LTTE ...
The elephant in the room. There is one hiccup, however. India, the top-ranked cricket team in the world – and Pakistan’s fiercest rival – isn’t coming to the party.