Posts Tagged ‘ali ahmed kurd’

Aitzaz Ahsan termed the decision for a strike premature, warning that it would divide the lawyers’ community. He said the decision had been taken in spite of PM Gilani’s assurance that the NRO judgment would be implemented. (more...)

Analysis by Abdul Nishapuri - from another thread: In Hamid Mir’s talkshow, Capital Talk, on 22 December 2009, Ali Ahmad Kurd expressed three key reservations about the current Supreme Court and the Chief Justice of Pakistan: 1. CJP and other judges of the Supreme Court are populist. They read daily newspapers, watch TV talk-shows and then [...]

A movement wastedBy Kunwar Idris Sunday, 04 Oct, 2009 (Dawn)Mysteriously silent is Aitzaz Ahsan, who led processions from one end of the country to the other swaying the lawyers with the (more...)

Restored judiciary brought no change: KurdSaturday, September 26, 2009By By Sohail KhanISLAMABAD: Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Ali Ahmad Kurd on Friday said that the restored judiciary had brought no changes in the institution that ultimately disappointed the public at large.Talking to (more...)

Kurd sees no change after restoration of deposed judgesISLAMABAD: Nothing has changed since the restoration of the deposed judiciary, Supreme Court Bar Association President Ali Ahmad Kurd said on Monday. Addressing a ceremony held at the Supreme Court to mark the beginning of the new judicial year, he said the same archaic practices were still [...]

Aitzaz Ahsan explains his decisions in his email to Samad Khurram: Association with the PPP; the pace of the Lawyers' Movement; The Long March Dharna, and the war in FATA... Dated: September 18th 2008. To: Samad Khurram, Harvard. My dear Samad, I opened your mail yesterday and was deeply pained by it and by its tenor. Of late there [...]

Saturday, November 01, 2008I waited for the results of the Kurd election with some trepidation. The government and the judges had put in their most fervent efforts against him. And it would not only be a mandate for him. It would also be a judgement on me. I too was under scrutiny. Thus when charged lawyers raised me on their shoulders as the [...]

The Vote CountIn the 2007 SCBA elections, the candidate opposing Aitzaz Ashan secured only 175 votes. In the 2008 (more...)

What kind of reservations Asif Zardari might have about Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.... Here is a perspective by Abbas Ather (more...)