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Posts Tagged ‘Munir A. Malik’

Son of the soil

By Dawar Naqvi • Jun 17th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
Recently there were two controversial statements from Sharif’s brothers on different occasions.
On June 12th during his speech at Judges rally Mr. Nawaz Sharif said that
“the life and death of Pakistan is linked to reinstatement of deposed judges who opted not to take oath under PCO”.
What [...]



Touch the Sky Proud Pakistani

By Ali Yar Khan • Jun 17th, 2008 • Category: Politics

What a spectacle it was. Watching hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis including lawyers, civil society activists, jean clad girls, bearded members of religious parties, modern boys, rickshaw drivers, IT professionals, doctors, shop keepers, industrialists and even the policemen were chanting the slogans for Pakistan, its judiciary and for the ouster of that man who thinks [...]



Long March About to Achieve its Purpose

By Rohail Butt • Jun 16th, 2008 • Category: Politics

At last Asif Ali Zardari has put down the glasses of National Reconciliation Ordinance for a while and has admitted the sea of people in Islamabad during the long march of lawyers, APDM, PML-N, TI, civil society, ex-servicemen, relatives of missing people, and the general public of Pakistan which was chiefly an anti-Musharraf and anti-Zardari [...]



Long March : Lessons Learned

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jun 16th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The long march by the lawyers for the restitution of the judges and the supremacy of rule of law has terminated in a lackluster faction leaving a trail of mistrust and disappointment, but the attendance by the hybrid group of people from all the factions of the society has proved once again as what the [...]



Has Aitzaz Sold Lawyers Movement?

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jun 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The end of the Long March by the lawyers for the restoration of the judiciary and the rule of law is not something to cherish at high notes. The lawyers felt robbed, and the civil society felt cheated, while the silent majority felt a familiar stab.  When the Long March suddenly called off without even [...]



Jo Loh-e-Azal Per Likha Hai

By M Mirza • Jun 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Was Long March a Failure?

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Jun 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Hundreds of Thousands of people gathered in the Parade Avenue if not millions in the wake of long march by the lawyers for the rule of law and the reinstatement of the judges. The President House, Parliament House and the Prime Minister House, all the leading buildings saw the happenings in culminations of the long [...]



March, March, Long March

By Sameer Shaharyar • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The silent majority of Pakistan is poised to participate in movement of lawyers. They are on their toes to take part in the long march being organised by the bar and the bench for restoration of the deposed judges. Long March is an opportunity for them to exhort the government of Pakistan People’s Party to [...]



When Lawyers March, It Stays Marched

By Rohail Butt • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Long March is not a peace of cake, which would be devoured by the likes of Rehman Malik, and its not any NRO which would be digested without any burp by Asif Ali Zardari. It’s the caravan of forces of change, and when they march, it stays Marched.
Lawyers cannot be deterred and they cannot be [...]



Long Live, Long March

By Sameer Shaharyar • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, the hope for the millions of Pakistan has aptly said that “The journey is thorny and lengthy and the time is short, but I believe the movement would be successful to achieve its objectives.” On the call of the justice, thousands of lawyers, civil society activists and people [...]