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The News International (blog)
February 18, 2018
KARACHI: Legal fraternity and civil society demanded for foolproof security for a family of two serving judges, one retired judge and a senior lawyer, under attack from last three years and has lost the lives of three family members in a feud with another clan. Servants of Sindh (SoS) a human rightsÃâà...
The Express Tribune
February 12, 2018
KARACHI: Judicial work remained suspended on Monday at the Sindh High Court (SHC) and subordinate courts in the city to mourn the death of lawyer and rights activist Asma Jahangir. On the announcement of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC), the Sindh Bar Council (SBC) had appealed to all the barÃâà...
The News International (blog)
February 12, 2018
Paying their tributes to the country's prominent human rights activist and lawyer Asma Jahangir, civil society and rights activists on Monday vowed to not only sustain but also further ... The Karachi Bar Association, the Malir Bar Association and the Sindh Bar Council (SBC) also observed a day of mourning.
Pakistan Today
February 12, 2018
KARACHI: Sindh Governor Muhammad Zubair said on Monday that lawyer community has an important role in the provision of justice and eradication of social ills. Talking to a delegation of Karachi Bar Association (KBA) at the Governor House, he appreciated the great sacrifices rendered by lawyers forÃâà...
Daily Times
February 8, 2018
Essentially building on this idea, Sudanese scholar and lawyer Dr Abdullahi Ahmed An Na'im's book's Islam and the Secular State opens up with this ... In particular she misquotes Jinnah's speech at the Karachi Bar Association by attributing to him falsely the statement 'The constitution of Pakistan shall beÃâà...
The Express Tribune
January 23, 2018
The meeting was held at the Karachi Bar Association's premises. Participants shouted slogans seeking hanging of the suspended SSP Anwar over the recent killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud in an alleged fake encounter by his team. In his address, KBA President Advocate Haider Imam Rizvi said the legalÃâà...
DunyaNews Pakistan
December 14, 2017
KARACHI (Dunya News) – While addressing the lawyers in Karachi on Thursday, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan claimed that Pakistan has changed after the Panama Papers case verdict. “A powerful person was held accountable for the first time in the country's history,” the PTI chiefÃâà...
DAWN.com
November 24, 2017
Sara Malkani, one of the lawyers who spearheaded the initiative shares how and why this came to fruition in a profession with evidently not enough female representation: "There's a small group of us women, compared to men, who go to the High Court in Karachi, two of those lawyers being Zahrah VayaniÃâà...
DAWN.com
August 22, 2017
The Sindh Bar Council had announced a province-wide strike to protest the use of water cannons and tear gas against the protesting lawyers on the Lahore ... The Karachi Bar Association also took out a rally from the City Courts and staged a sit-in on M.A. Jinnah Road, adding to the already chaotic trafficÃâà...
DunyaNews Pakistan
August 21, 2017
LAHORE/KARACHI (Dunya News) – Bar councils called strike on August 22 in Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) against the arrest of leaders of lawyer associations. Lawyers from cities including Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Rawalpindi, Peshawar and other will stage protests inÃâà...
The Express Tribune
August 8, 2017
KARACHI / KARACHI: Lawyers observed black day on Tuesday to mark the first anniversary of the Quetta suicide bomb blast that claimed 73 lives last ... a splinter group of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan had claimed responsibility of the bombing, which was the worst attack on the lawyers in the history ofÃâà...
The Express Tribune
June 16, 2017
KARACHI: A lawyer was fined Rs200 on Thursday by a judicial magistrate after being convicted of insulting the judge and interrupting court proceedings around two weeks ago. Advocate Suhail Baig Noori was accused of intentionally insulting judicial magistrate Shahid Hussain Soomro and interruptingÃâà...
The Express Tribune
June 7, 2017
KARACHI: A group of lawyers allegedly thrashed two reporters at the City Courts on Tuesday for “filming them while they were inappropriately searching a woman”. Junaid Shah and Waqas Aurangzeb, both reporters affiliated with private TV news channels, were beaten up and locked up for around half anÃâà...
The Express Tribune
May 12, 2017
Jacqueline Sultan, a high court advocate and a member of the Karachi Bar Council has informed Karachi Bar Association President Naeem Qureshi, the Risala Police Station, the South SSP, and the Rangers DG about the letter she found in her chamber. The Karachi Bar Association in its general bodyÃâà...
