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| July 21, 2007 | Saturday | Rajab 05, 1428 |
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Judiciary turns the corner: • SC voids presidential reference against CJ • First verdict against a military ruler
ISLAMABAD, July 20: In what has been billed as a defining moment in the country’s otherwise chequered judicial history, the Supreme Court on Friday struck down the presidential reference against Chief...
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Musharraf will ‘respect’ verdict
ISLAMABAD, July 20: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has accepted the Supreme Court’s ruling reinstating Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, saying it will be honoured, respected and adhered to, according to his spokesman Maj-Gen (Retd) Rashid Qureshi....
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Ruling may spur more legal challenges
ISLAMABAD, July 20: The Supreme Court ruling on Friday reinstating its chief justice has come as triumph of a judicial defiance that could open floodgates for more legal challenges to arbitrary actions and even cloud President Pervez Musharraf’s political ambitions....
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The road to redemption
ISLAMABAD, July 20: The Supreme Court on Friday reinstated Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry in a major setback for President Gen Pervez Musharraf. Here is a chronology of events in the...
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CJ transfers SC registrar
JUSTICE Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry assumed the charge of Chief Justice of Pakistan at 4.30pm on Friday, about half an hour after the Supreme Court larger bench reinstated him....
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Musharraf urged to pack up
KARACHI, July 20: Opposition leaders on Friday welcomed the Supreme Court’s verdict in favour of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and termed it a “historic victory” in the struggle for the supremacy of law and Constitution....
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Happy ending or a good beginning?
IT is difficult to recall a moment for quite a few decades when the people have been so overwhelmed by feelings of relief and joy as yesterday afternoon....
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100 feared dead in thunderstorm
UPPER DIR, July 20: At least 100 people, including women and children, are feared dead as lightning and thunderstorm has hit three villages, triggering a flash flood in the remote Usherai Darra area....
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Four killed in suicide attack
MIRAMSHAH, July 20: Four people, including a paramilitary soldier, were killed and five others were injured when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-packed car into a security check post near Miramshah in the North Waziristan Agency on Friday....
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Strategy to combat terrorism approved
ISLAMABAD, July 20: A meeting presided over by President Pervez Musharraf on Friday approved ‘an all-encompassing strategy’ to combat terrorism, extremism and growing militancy in the country, particularly in the NWFP and tribal areas....
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FO warns against unilateral action
ISLAMABAD, July 20: Pakistan on Friday warned the United States against what it characterised as “irresponsible and dangerous” calls by top American officials for unilateral military action against alleged Al Qaeda ‘safe havens’ in the country’s tribal areas....
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US offers help for operation
WASHINGTON, July 20: The United States has offered intelligence and military assistance to Pakistan for operations against militants in the tribal region linked to Al Qaeda, CNN reported....
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100 militants surrender
QUETTA, July 20: Two militant commanders from the Marri tribe, Daula Khan Marri and Kamal Khan Marri, and their 100 armed men, who had been fighting security forces in Balochistan, surrendered...
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‘Govt killing own people because of US pressure’
ISLAMABAD, July 20: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) president Qazi Hussain Ahmed on Friday criticised the government for hiding exact number of students killed during the Lal Masjid-Jamia Hafsa operation which, he said, had been carried out under US pressure....
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Beijing condemns targeting of workers
BEIJING, July 20: China on Friday condemned the suicide bomb attack that targeted a convoy of Chinese workers and left at least 30 Pakistanis dead. “China strongly condemns the terror attack...
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President’s power to file reference intact
KARACHI, July 20: The Supreme Court seems to have relied on allegations of mala fides as evident from circumstances in setting aside the reference against Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, though the rationale would be known in detailed reasoning....
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US hails verdict to restore CJ
WASHINGTON, July 20: The Supreme Court’s decision to restore Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry shows that the Pakistani people are able to solve even very difficult ‘political questions’ peacefully, said the US State Department on Friday....
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Naeem refuses to comment
LAHORE, July 20: Lawyer Naeem Bokhari, whose letter to Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry is believed to have initiated the filing of the presidential reference against him, said on Friday he...
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