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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.
President Asif Ali Zardari described her as "an advocate defending human rights in her capacity as former president of the women's wing of the PPP Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and as a parliamentarian. The President also prayed for eternal rest to the soul of Ms. Mehrunnisa Afridi and patience to the members of bereaved family to bear the loss with ...
H.R.5050 – Women's Business Ownership Act of 1988: The Women's Business Ownership Act was passed in 1988 with the help of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). The Act was created to address the needs of women in business by giving women entrepreneurs better recognition, additional resources, and by eliminating ...
Pakistan's lawmakers elected Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday as the country’s president for the second time. Zardari secured 411 votes from national and provincial lawmakers. Zardari was previously ...
Pakistan's former President Asif Ali Zardari won a second term on Saturday, supported by the ruling coalition in a vote by parliament and regional assemblies, the election presiding officer said.
In September 1981, women came together in Karachi in an emergency meeting to oppose the adverse effects on women of martial law and the Islamization campaign. They launched what later became the first full-fledged national women's movement in Pakistan, the Women's Action Forum (WAF). WAF staged public protests and campaigns against the Hudood ...
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.
[217] [218] Zardari's government gave in to popular pressure [217] and Prime Minister Gilani in an early morning speech on 16 March 2009 promised to reinstate Chaudhry by 21 March. [219] [220] Ten judges were reinstated on 16 March, and Chaudry assumed his position on 22 March. [221] [222] Zardari's month-long direct control of the Punjab ended ...