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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.
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.
' People's Liberation Front ', PLF) is a leftist political party in Sri Lanka. [15] The party was formerly a revolutionary movement and was involved in two armed uprisings against the government of Sri Lanka : once in 1971 ( SLFP ), and another in 1987–1989 ( UNP ).
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
Pakistani expatriates in Sri Lanka (2 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Pakistanis in Sri Lanka" This category contains only the following page.
Ambika Satkunanathan is a human rights lawyer and human rights activist. She is also the former Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka. She also served in as the legal Consultant to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Sri Lanka.
National People's Movement, often abbreviated as NPM (Sinhala: ජාතික ජනතා ව්යාපාරය, Tamil: தேசிய மக்கள் இயக்கம்) is a movement established on 18 December 2018 by joining two organisations, Deshodaya and United Professionals Movement [1] with another 17 civil society groups, composed of intellectuals, professionals ...
On August 14, 2006, a convoy carrying the Pakistani High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Bashir Wali Mohamed, was attacked by a Claymore antipersonnel mine concealed within an auto rickshaw. The High Commissioner escaped unhurt, but seven people (including four Army commandoes) were killed and a further seventeen injured in the blast. [1]