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Aitzaz Ahsan , for his courageous and earnest leading role in the erstwhile movement for the reinstatement of Chief Justice Ifhtikhar Chodhary and other deposed judges has achieved gigantic status across the country and even beyond That momentous struggle was not for few individuals but in reality for lofty  principles , rule of law and , independence of judiciary Aitzaz was moving soul behind ...

It has remained our sheer bad luck that those who manage to clamber up the greasy monkey pole in Pakistan start considering themselves above every law and above every other meremortal. They have even passed laws that immune them from any punishment by the courts and they cannot be touched by other institutions. It’s the classic show of discrimination, which is the other name of protecting ...

One argument from the governments holds lots of weight against the chief justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. They are of the opinion that selective justice is being done and they are targeted by the CJP, while the former dictator Pervez Musharraf who actually dismissed, incarcerated, and humiliated the chief justice and other judges is roaming free and never CJP has took any suo ...

Opposition and the coalition partner, all of them are  only focussed on the personality of President Asif Ali Zardari. Contrary to the expectations of the establishment, Mr. Zardari has not only weathered all the crisis, he has also managed to consolidate his position as the leader of PPP and the head of state.

The raison det’re of sudden insurgency of President Zardari in the politics and his coming out of bunker is that he has sensed that his days are numbered and it’s just about time that someone else takes the throne in Islamabad. He knows that his past has at last caught up with him, and the NRO has proven to be the albatross for him, which is not a mistake or revenge by the apex court, but a ...

Unlike his predecessors, the current Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Qazi Muhammad Anwar hasn’t got the magentism and the aura of someone who could ignite a nation wide upheavel for any cause. Aitzaz Ahsan and Ali Ahmed Kurd, the former SCBA presidents led a successful lawyers movement and became a national figure, but very few know about Qazi Anwar as the president of supreme ...

There are no ethnic or religious differences in the metropolis of Karachi. All the clash and conflict is between the political thugs of PPP and MQM who are armed to their teeth and who have got all the backing from top. Starting from the looting and arsoning of Boulton Market, and the target killing going across the city, both MQM and PPP are involved and the same cat is also safeguarding the ...

Whenever riots erupt in Karachi, all the factions blame that to the Land Mafia. The Karachiites wonder as who exactly this land mafia is. This faceless monster is so powerful that nobody knows about it and nobody has ever seen it and yet it wrecks havoc in the city after every two weeks. All of a sudden, Karachi gets engulfed in aerial firing, target killing, arson and looting and MQM, ANP, ...

At least the president of Pakistan People’s Party cannot win the throne of Lahore with the help of Salman Taseer and Raja Riaz or buying away lotas like Manzoor Wattoo, or offering carrots to the Chaudhrys of Gujrat or supporting Sheikh Rashid Ahmed in clandestine fashion.

President Zardari’s struggles against a ‘belligerent’ Geo News seems very strange,if seen in isolation. Supposedly Geo News is working for ‘freedom of expression’ previously against a dictator and now against a democratically elected president. Geo and its parent Jang group are well versed in judging the ‘trend of the time’.