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...list of legal contests, if not victories. Ivan Fisher made his name defending Jack Henry Abbott, a convicted killer whose gritty prison memoir, In the Belly of the Beast, was famously championed by Norman Mailer. Fisher is no stranger to bad guys. In the 1990s, Fisher defended Haji Ayub Afridi, a man widely believed to be one of Pakistan's major narcotraffickers, as well as someone who was thought to have worked closely with the CIA during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Afridi served 3 1/2 years for drug trafficking, a verdict that at the time was considered a defeat...
...apprehended in Hong Kong were two Pakistanis from Peshawar, Sayed Mustajab Shah, 54, and Muhammad Abid Afridi, 29, and Ilyas Ali, 55, a U.S. passport holder who lived in Minnesota from 1974 through 2001. In April, Ali allegedly started negotiations in San Diego to sell hashish and heroin to a buyer, who happened to be an undercover FBI agent. Apparently he then got on a plane to Pakistan to gather his two friends. On Sept. 15, say court papers, the threesome flew from Karachi to Hong Kong and checked into three rooms at the marble-clad Conrad Hotel, where...
...Musharraf concedes that he has no plans to do away with the Hudood laws. Tampering with this code would enrage Pakistani religious conservatives, with whom Musharraf is engaged in a delicate dance of challenge and accommodation. "He cannot change it," says Malik Hamid Afridi, a former prosecutor in Kohat. "There is no force other than God. There is no change to the Koran. There are no amendments." But near the Kohat court, a prosecutor who reluctantly helped to convict Zafran Bibi disagrees. "Of course women suffer more because of our customs, because there is no freedom for women," he says...
...LEMMON, 76, esteemed actor; in Los Angeles. Lemmon is perhaps most famous for his role as straight man Felix Unger opposite Walter Matthau in the film version of The Odd Couple, and his Oscar-winning portrayal of Harry Stoner, a corrupt businessman in Save the Tiger. SENTENCED. REHMAT SHAH AFRIDI, 55, editor and owner of the English-language Pakistani newspaper Frontier Post, to death for drug trafficking; in Islamabad. Reporters Sans Frontieres has denounced the verdict, saying it was "more for his critical coverage of Anti-Narcotics Force activities than for supposed drug trafficking." INVESTIGATION DROPPED, Against JEAN-CHRISTOPHE MITTERRAND...
...really think that students in theirbeginning years need to have morestudent-professor contact than there is to gobeyond the lecture," says Foreign Cultures 14 TFAdnan Afridi...