Islamabad, May 26 :

Karachi, May 22 : Deposed Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has praised the media and the civil society for their support to the lawyers’ movement to have the sacked judges restored.

In his telephonic address to a joint meeting of the Sindh High Court Bar, Karachi Bar and Malir Bar associations, The News quoted Chaudhry as saying that the judiciary had always been handled roughly in Pakistan, and therefore, no praise was enough for the judges who had refused to take oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order issued under the directions of then President General Pervez Musharraf.

Washington, May 14: Pakistan’s deposed chief justice Iftikhar Choudhry has said that if reinstated he would re-examine the legitimacy of the country’s President Musharraf’s second term beginning No

Quetta, Apr 23 : Justice (Retd) Rana Bhagwandas, the only Hindu judge to be installed as one of the Pakistan Supreme Court judges, has rejected the “minus-one” formula, saying that reinstatement of all deposed judges except deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry would “aggravate” the judicial crisis and that it would harm the cause of independence of the judiciary and the rule of law.

He said that if an individual (read President Pervez Musharraf) could remove the judges, there should be no reason that parliament could not reverse the illegal act.

Islamabad, Apr 13: De

Islamabad, Apr. 6: Pakistan’s deposed Supreme Court Chief Justice (CJ) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has expressed his determination to have himself reinstated.

Sources told The Nation that he revealed these thoughts to three other sacked Supreme Court Justices -- Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan, Justice Sardar Raza Khan, and Justice Nasirul Mulk – during a meeting at his residence on Saturday.

According to the paper, the sacked justices discussed different issues, including proposed legal package for restoration of judges in line with Murree Accord.