Lahore, Mar 16 : To protest the "undemocratic steps adopted by the Pakistan People's Party Government against the marchers", Deputy Attorney of Pakistan Abdul Hayee Gillani and PPP Parliamentary Secretary Ijaz Virk have resigned from their posts to record their protest against the torture of lawyers.

Lahore, Mar. 16 : Mukhtaran Mai, the woman who was gang-raped by tribals in 2002 for seeking to safe her brother from radical Islamic justice, has married a police constable from her native village in Muzaffargarh, a private TV channel reported on Sunday.

According to The News, Mai married to Nasir Abbas Gabol. It was Gabol's second marriage and Mai's family members attended the event.

Mai attracted the attention of local and international media after she was gang-raped on the orders of a panchayat.

Islamabad, Mar. 16: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani''s announcement to restore the judges who were sacked by President Musharraf in 2007 to their respective positions, was greeted with both joy and celebration on Sunday night and Monday morning.

Islamabad, Mar. 16 : Former Pakistan Prime Minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif on Monday called off the `Long March'' of opposition politicians and lawyers after incumbent Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani announced that deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry would be reinstated on March 21 after present Chief Justice Dogar retires.

In an address to the nation, Gilani declared that President Zardari had agreed to most of Nawaz Sharif''s demands.

Gilani also ordered all political party activists and lawyers arrested over the past week to be released.

Islamabad  - Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani early Monday reinstated the country's top judge ahead of a showdown with opposition parties and defiant lawyers that threatened the stability of nuclear-armed country.

Former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and his colleagues had been sacked in November 2007 under emergency rule proclaimed by then- president and military strongman Pervez Musharraf.

Quetta (Pakistan), Mar. 15 : A mysterious insurgent group has said that it is ready to trade John Solecki, the American chief of the U. N. refugee office for the 1,100 people who have gone missing since 2000.

They have said that they are a ready to exchange Solecki for missing Pakistani tailor Ali Asghar Bangulzai and others.

In Baluchistan, Solecki''s kidnapping appears to reflect growing nationalist sentiment among ethnic Baluch tribes, for whom the connection to militant Islam remains murky.