Tag: Lawyers

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Lawyers' Wing meeting on Saturday was marred by protests by lawyers from Lahore at the Lahore High Court (LHC) Bar Room. PML-N Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Naseer Bhutta was chairing the meeting when a group of lawyers led by Sirajul Islam stood up and came near the roster and started chanting slogans whenever any speaker came to deliver his speech.
The lawyers said that the meeting was being held illegally, as no central

ISLAMABAD - As the courtroom was packed to capacity on Thursday during the hearing of the ZA Bhutto case, lawyers and PPP leaders outside the court made careful statements, understandably not to annoy the court. All those who talked to reporters praised the goodwill gesture shown by the court vis-a-vis the presidential reference despite the recent bitterness between the executive and the judiciary on non-implementation of court verdicts. Soon after the hearing of the case, former law

QUETTA - Lawyers in Quetta continued their token hunger strike for the fifth consecutive day on Monday against the government's failure to recover two of their colleagues, Munir Ahmad Mirwani and Agha Zahir Shah. Balochistan High Court Bar Association Secretary General and Lawyers' Committee Spokesman Bashir Ahmed Qazi told reporters that despite lawyers' hunger strike lasting five days, the rulers were doing nothing for the recovery of Mirwani and Shah. Separately two mine workers

LOS ANGELES - Gruesome photos of Michael Jackson's autopsy should not be shown to the jury in the involuntary manslaughter trial of the pop singer's doctor, defense attorneys argued in court papers released on Thursday.
Showing the pictures of the "Thriller" singer's autopsy risk jeopardizing the trial in May of Dr. Conrad Murray, they said. Murray is charged with inadvertently causing Jackson's June 2009 death by giving him the powerful anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid, as

ISLAMABAD - The legal fraternity on Tuesday smelt a rat in the presidential reference filed with the apex court to reopen the ZA Bhutto case, with almost all leading lawyers considering the reference "not maintainable" under the Article 186.
Supreme Court Bar Association President Asma Jahangir and Justice (r) Fakharuddin G Ebrahim avoided commenting on the presidential reference, while others questioned why the ruling party had taken 32 years to wake up and file the reference

GUJRANWALA - Punjab Governor Latif Khosa has said that he is the first governor who belongs to lawyers' community and will solve their problems on top priority. He was talking to a delegation of People's Lawyers Forum Gujranwala at the governor's house the other day. The delegation was led by PLF President Ahwar Tufail Warraich while other members Aftab Zaidi, Asif Nadeem, Sheikh Ezad Masood, Muhammad Nauman Aziz and Ahad Mahmood Ramay were among the participants.
The governor

LAHORE - Lawyers observed 'black-day' on Friday and denounced the acquittal and release of Raymond Davis, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative and killer of two Pakistani citizens. Black flags were hoisted on bar premises and lawyers appeared in courts wearing black armbands. Speaking at a general-house meeting of the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA), the lawyers flayed politicians, army and secret agencies and accused them of playing a dirty role in the Raymond

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD - Lawyers are divided over the issue of the release of Raymond Davis, as some of them said that the whole affair was conducted in a dubious manner, whereas others said the matter was resolved in accordance with the law of the land. Justice Tariq Mehmood said the decision was in accordance with law of the land as it permits that if the heirs of a person killed agree to diyat or blood money, the murderer could be forgiven and subsequently acquitted by the court.