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Pakistani lawyers demanding that the government reinstate judges ousted last year by former President Pervez Musharraf clashed with police in Islamabad on Thursday, according to media reports. Television images showed police beating the lawyers...

Defence of Human Rights Chairman Khalid Khawaja petitioned the Islamabad High Court on Wednesday to register abduction charges against Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf and several other high-ranking officials from his...

Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is seeking to reopen corruption cases against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother, said the NAB's Deputy Prosecutor General Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta on Tuesday. Bhutta...

Pakistani authorities Saturday reinstated four more judges ousted from their positions in November when former President Pervez Musharraf proclaimed emergency rule. The reappointment of four judges of the Lahore High Court follows an announcement Wednesday that eight other judges...

Pakistani Law Minister Farooq H. Naek told reporters Thursday that ousted Supreme Court chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry cannot be reinstated because the current chief justice was legitimately appointed . Naek said...

Lawyers blocked streets in the major cities of Pakistan on Thursday to demand the reappointment of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and other judges removed last year by...

The Pakistani government reinstated eight judges in the Sindh High Court in Karachi on Wednesday. The judges had previously refused to take office until the reinstatement of all 60 judges dismissed last year by former...

Swiss Prosecutor General Daniel Zappelli announced on Monday that he will not pursue money-laundering charges against Pakistani presidential candidate Asif Ali Zardari , who is the widower of the assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto [BBC obituary;...

Former Pakistani prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) head Nawaz Sharif on Monday followed through with threats to withdraw his party from the coalition government. Sharif had set Friday...

Former Pakistan prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) head Nawaz Sharif has threatened to withdraw from the government if all of the judges ousted last year by President Pervez Musharraf [official website; JURIST news...