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Posts Tagged ‘Latif Khosa’

Has Shahbaz Taseer Killed?

By Umer Toor • Aug 28th, 2011 • Category: Politics

The religious extremists have struck again and after assassinating the liberal and leading businessman Salman Taseer, they have also kidnapped his son Shahbaz Taseer. This is yet another example of the lawlessness and the failure of the Punjab government.
It seems that either the Punjab government was involved in the kidnapping or it was incompetent. [...]



Swiss Cases Will Lead to Final Showdown

By Rohail Butt • May 14th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is not retreating and not relenting. He has made it clear to everybody that he means business and he will do what he deems appropriate and just. He has reiterated numerous times now that the Supreme Court will get all its decisions implemented at [...]



Farooq Naek, Latif Khosa, Babar Awan; Crisis Generators

By Maria Sultan • Feb 20th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Farooq H Naek, the chairman senate will become the president of Pakistan, if the current president of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari is sacked, jailed, exiled or simply ousted by any coup or by any verdict by judiciary. Latif Khosa is living with an allegation of taking bribe in a high profile case, and he was [...]



What They See in Latif Khosa

By Maria Sultan • Feb 12th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Atta variation in our country. At one side, the Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is trying hard to clear the filth from the judiciary and harranguing on the virtues of justice and fair play and on other other side, the government is filling up the posts with the proven and notorious characters.
Latif Khosa is former [...]



Babar Awan and Haris Steel Mills

By Salman Mugsi • Jan 12th, 2010 • Category: Politics

My guess is that the starting point of all-out, open and bloody clash between the judiciary and the government will be on the matter of Haris Steel Mills case, instead of the on the NRO. The aggressive and violent reaction from the PPP is basically not due to the verdict of Supreme Court over NRO,  [...]



Anwar Mansoor Khan : New Attorney General

By Sher Ali • Dec 22nd, 2009 • Category: Misc

The ministry of law has announced that Anwar Mansoor Khan  has been appointed as the new attorney general of Pakistan. Earlier this post was offered to the once renegade Aitzaz Ahsan, who has got his PPP CEC membership restored. The seat of attorney general was vacated by the Latif Khosa, as he was found implicated [...]



Latif Khosa: Out By Zardari and CJP

By Haris Hashmi • Oct 21st, 2009 • Category: Politics

During the early days of the lawyers movement for the restoration of the deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chuadhary, cameras of the media captured a picture depicting Latif Khosa, a leader of PPP with blood stained head due to the baton charge of police on lawyers procession. Even then some said that Latif threw his [...]



Review Petition on Sharifs’ Dis-qualification

By Farid Masood • Mar 15th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Tomorrow, Attoney General of Pakistan Mr Latif Khosa (who was himself participant of long march called by late Benazir Bhutto for Justice Iftikhar re-instatement as CJP) will file an application for the detailed judgement on Sharifs’ dis-qualification case. After this judgement, AG Mr Latif Khosa shall file a petition to review the decision.
The case shall [...]



Clash Between Aitzaz Ahsan and Zardari

By Salman Mugsi • Jun 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan and co-chairman of Pakistan People’s Party Asif Ali Zardari are at loggerheads, and the feud is only getting ugle. In an interview to the New York Times, Aitzaz has allegedly said that most of the cases against Zardari and Benazir were justified and Zardari has become clean only [...]



New Confronation in Offing

By Salman Mugsi • May 29th, 2008 • Category: Politics

“If lawyers want to launch a movement, the government is well prepared to deal with it”. Wednesday, May 28, 2008, The News.
The above words are not from Dr. Sher Afgun, or from Wasi Zafar or from Pervaiz Elahi or from Mohammad Ali Durrani or from Sheikh Rashid or from Pervez Musharraf. These familiar words [...]