Chief Justice casts his vote.

QUETTA: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry cast his vote on Saturday alongside his son. After casting his vote, Chief Justice Chaudhry urged Pakistanis to leave their homes to vote. The Chief Justice said that elections were proof the superiority of the constitution.
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Musharraf sent on judicial remand till May 4.

ISLAMABAD: The former president and military ruler Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf has been presented before the anti-terrorism court amid tight security.
His lawyers are seeking bail for the former president which was cancelled by the Islamabad High Court earlier this week.
Musharraf was brought inside premises of the anti-terrorist court in Islamabad under heavy security. ATC judge Kausar Abbas Zaidi is hearing the case at the ATC which was established on Friday.
Meanwhile, the ex-dictator was given a bulletproof vest and breakfast by his three guards and counsel who visited him at the police headquarters in the morning.
Rejecting the allegations, Musharraf earlier said that he had never put any judge under house arrest, adding that he respects the courts.
The police have recorded the initial statement of Pervez Musharraf that will now be made part of the proceeding.
Pervez Musharraf was shifted to the police headquarters in Islamabad from his farmhouse residence at Chak Shahzad on Friday, hours after the former military ruler surrendered himself to the authorities in the judges’ detention case.
The judge issued an order for a two-day-long transit remand of Musharraf. The order also added clause 780-A pertaining to terrorism in the list of charges against the former army strongman.

link: http://dunyanews.tv/index.php/en/Pakistan/170003-Musharraf-sent-on-judicial-remand-till-May-4

Musharraf runs out as court orders his arrest.

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday ordered immediate arrest of former military ruler Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf in judges detention case.
The retired general immediately left the court premises in Islamabad, driving away in a convoy escorted by Rangers personnel and his bodyguards to an unknown location.
Musharraf returned to Pakistan on March 24 after four years in self-imposed exile, and is accused over the 2007 killing of Benazir Bhutto, the 2006 death of a Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti and for sacking judges in 2007.
He has been in and out of courts in recent weeks, extending his bail in connection with all three cases, but on Thursday a court in Islamabad cancelled his bail over the 2007 sacking of judges.
"The judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui ordered that the interim bail is dismissed," Musharraf s defence lawyer Qamar Afzal told AFP.
The case is based on an FIR against the retired general registered in August 11, 2009 on the complaint of Chaudhry Mohammad Aslam Ghumman advocate.
He had asked the police to initiate legal proceedings against Musharraf for detaining over 60 judges, including Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, after proclamation of a state of emergency in the country on November 3, 2007.

link: http://dunyanews.tv/index.php/en/Pakistan/169696-Musharraf-flees-as-court-orders-his-arrest

Govt axes Sindh Police chief over Karachi attack.

KARACHI: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has ordered the Sindh chief secretary to issue a notification regarding suspension of all police officers concerned from the rank of SSP to SHO in connection with Karachi’s Abbas Town bomb attack. When the three-member bench of the apex court headed by chief justice started the proceedings of suo motu notice of Abbas Town tragedy at the court’s Karachi Registry on Wednesday, the counsel for the Sindh government, Anwar Mansoor Khan, and Sindh Advocate General Abdul Fatah Malik apprised the bench that the Sindh IGP and Additional IGP have been repatriated to the federal government by the Sindh chief minister. The counsel apprised the bench that a judicial inquiry has been ordered by the government into the Abbas Town incident. The bench expressed dissatisfaction over the reports submitted by the police and Rangers on the bomb blasts. The bench called for a detailed report from the Sindh Rangers director general about the incident and actions taken by them following the tragedy. The bench remarked that no action was taken against the police officers concerned on their negligence until the CJP took suo motu notice. The chief justice also directed the administration to provide all-out help and assistance to the victims of the attack. The bench will resume proceedings in the case tomorrow.

link: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2013%5C03%5C07%5Cstory_7-3-2013_pg1_3

Lawyers mark March 9 as black day.

KARACHI: The lawyers' fraternity will observe a black day today (Wednesday) to mark the 4th anniversary of the removal of Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on March 9, 2007 by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf. Office-bearers of the Pakistan Bar Council, the Sindh Bar Council and the Karachi Bar Association including Zia Ahmed Awan advocate, Iftikhar Qaimkhani, Muhammad Aqil, Abdul Hameed Yousufi, Mehmood-ul-Hassan and Khalid Munawar announced this decision at a joint press conference on Tuesday.
They said that March 9 is remembered as the day when a dictator tried to curb the independence of judiciary and lawyers across the country will observe it as a black day. "Keeping the interest of the people in mind, court proceedings will not be boycotted," they said. Lawyers will wear black armbands and hoist black flags at bar offices across Sindh.
Denouncing Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Asma Jahangir's remarks about the apex court judges, they said that the SCBA president has lost the mandate of the lawyers due to her controversial statements. They said that the lawyers will continue their struggle for an independent judiciary and will never compromise on this issue.They urged the lawyers' community to maintain unity for sustaining democracy and the independence of judiciary.

link: http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/03/09/city/karachi/lawyers-to-observe-black-day-today/