Pakistan

Lahore Police stop Aitzaz Ahasan from attending mourning prayer of Benazir Bhutto

Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahasan

Aitzaz Ahsan denied to attend Benazir’s mourning prayer

Lahore, Jan 2: Pakistan’s Supreme Court Bar Association president Aitzaz

Pak investigators examine Benazir’s e-mail to friend

Islamabad, Jan 2: Investigators in Pakistan have thoroughly discussed the

PPP wants restoration of pre-Nov 3 judiciary

Islamabad, Jan 2: The shattered leadership of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) is now talking of restoration of the pre-Nov 3 judiciary in accordance with the will and statement of its slain leader Be

Western diplomat says postponing Jan 8 polls would polarise Pak further

Islamabad, Jan 2: Pakistan will be polarised further if the general elections scheduled for January 8 is postponed, a Western diplomat has said.

He further said the government has put itself at risk because people would see the delay of elections for what it really was.

The problems of burned electoral offices in Sindh were easy to remedy in a nation with over 100 electoral offices, the New York Times (NYT) quoted the diplomat, as saying.

The government has also extended the detention of Aitzaz Ahsan, the leader of the opposition lawyers’ movement for another month, his son, Ali Ahsan, said.

PPP, HRCP trying to remove legal hitches for a UN probe into Benazir’s killing

Former Prime Minister Benazir BhuttoLahore,

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