Word: iftikhar
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...lesson I had learned back home: although it is our right, indeed our duty, to be reasonably prudent and careful, the hate shown to us by a few people should never completely stifle the possibility of building bridges with others who sincerely offer us their love and friendship. Asif Iftikhar Lahore, Pakistan...
...crackdown on the protest came just two days after the Supreme Court, lead by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, ruled that the government had no right to blockade streets leading into the capital, nor could it prevent protests or stop the free flow of traffic past government buildings. Nevertheless, both Constitution Avenue, which leads past the Supreme Court building, and intersecting street Sharah-e-Jamhuriyat, which roughly translates as Democracy Avenue, were completely blockaded. "This is a massive violation of not just human rights, but of the Supreme Court ruling," said Anila Ateeq, a high court lawyer, as she dabbed...
...continuing to hold both positions had been the basis of the legal challenges to his running for a second term.) Lawyers who only two months ago had been celebrating the Supreme Court justices for standing up to Musharraf by reversing his dismissal of the popular and independent Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry - who did not preside in this case - denounced the ruling as "despicable...
...Musharraf's efforts to engineer a similar legal coup for his second term started to unravel last March when he attempted, and failed, to dismiss the increasingly independent supreme court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. Since then his popularity, which was at record highs when he first took power from a Prime Minister widely seen as corrupt and out of touch, has plummeted to levels below that of Osama bin Laden (though still higher than U.S. President George W. Bush, according to a new poll). Last week, through his lawyer, Musharraf promised the Supreme Court that he would step down...
...regime: terrorist attacks, once confined to tribal areas in the north, have spread across the country. Some of Musharraf's political allies and fellow military officers are backing away, and his enemies sense his vulnerability. "This is the death spasm of the general's rule," says Supreme Court lawyer Iftikhar Gilani. "He can't survive anymore as a political entity...