Pakistan lawyers face government opposition on second 'long march'
Members of the Pakistan lawyers' movement and opposition politicians and supporters began a "long march" from Karachi to Islamabad Thursday against the government of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari ...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Saeed Malik, a US citizen who is the younger brother of former Pakistan Supreme Bar Association president and lawyers' movement leader Muneer Malik, says that the Obama Administration should support Pakistan's lawyers and civil society by...
Pakistani authorities have released more than 3400 lawyers and political activists detained in the aftermath of President Pervez Musharraf's November 3 declaration of emergency rule , Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Igbal Cheema told AFP Tuesday, adding...
Pakistani lawyers detained by the government under the declaration of emergency rule issued earlier this month by President Pervez Musharraf are being tortured, according to Asma Jahangir head of the independent Human...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Monday criticized the weekend imposition of a state of emergency in Pakistan, saying that she was "alarmed by the suspension of fundamental rights" in the...
