Pakistani police and security services detained hundreds of lawyers, rights activists and opposition figures Saturday and Sunday in a clampdown following President Pervez Musharraf's Saturday proclamation of emergency rule . Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said Sunday that up...
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New Pakistan Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar Sunday effectively set aside dismissed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry's last-ditch attempt to block President Pervez Musharraf's Saturday emergency declaration and Provisional Constitution Order (PCO) , saying that the Supreme Court...
Order, Supreme Court of Pakistan, November 3, 2007 [order by an 8-member Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry declaring invalid President Pervez Musharraf's Provisional Constitution Order (PCO) and directing civic and military officials not to take...
Provisional Constitution Order No. 1 (PCO), Pakistan Chief of the Army Staff General Pervez Musharraf, November 3, 2007 [suspending certain fundamental rights under a declaration of emergency and providing that "the Supreme Court or a High Court and any other...
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf defended his decision to suspend the country's constitution and impose emergency rule in a nationwide radio and television address delivered late Saturday local...
Proclamation of Emergency, General Pervez Musharraf, November 3, 2007 . Read the full text of the proclamation . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....
Pakistan state television announced Saturday that President Pervez Musharraf has appointed a new chief justice for the Supreme Court of Pakistan after dismissing Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry in the wake of suspending...
Pakistan's Supreme Court Saturday rejected a declaration of emergency rule issued by President Pervez Musharraf earlier in the day after paramilitary troops and police blocked off the Supreme Court building with...
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown Thursday announced the launch of a nationwide public consultation leading to a new as-yet-undrafted "Bill of Rights and Duties" in what he described as part of a process of "moving...
President Bush has decided to nominate retired federal judge Michael B. Mukasey as the next US attorney general succeeding the resigned Alberto Gonzales and will formally announce his pick Monday, according to administration...
