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Ali Ahmad Kurd, the newly-elected president of the Pakistan Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), called ousted Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry the "constitutional" chief justice of Pakistan Wednesday, and said...

The Pakistani cabinet led by Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Wednesday approved changes to a statute governing the country's lawyers and endorsed a draft bill that would establish a new National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR)....

Pakistani Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar swore in four previously ousted judges as new members of the country's Supreme Court Saturday, bringing the number of the judges on the reconstituted court to 29. Justice Sardar...

JURIST Guest Columnist Moeen Cheema, professor of Law & Policy at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan, says that in the wake of the election of Pakistan People's Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari as the President of...

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...

The Pakistan Supreme Court Bar Association has adopted two annual days of remembrance to highlight the plight of judges deposed following the declaration of emergency by President Pervez Musharraf in November 2007. The Bar Association will observe...

Members of the Pakistan lawyers' movement rallied Thursday against the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari for failing to reinstate judges deposed after the declaration of emergency by President...

The reconstituted Supreme Court of Pakistan validated President Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule and concomitant ouster of judges, including former Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry , in an opinion...

The Pakistani constitution must be amended in order to reinstate the judges who were ousted last year by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf , Pakistani Law and Justice Minister Farooq H. Naik said Sunday. He said...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday agreed to delay a by-election scheduled for Thursday in the district of the leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and ex-Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif [BBC profile;...