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Islamabad, Apr. 1 : Pakistan's deposed Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Tuesday pressed for his reinstatement, saying that he was still the legal head of the country's apex court.

Hailing the end of ''one-man rule'' in Pakistan, Chaudhry told a gathering of lawyers in Quetta that his sacking by President General Musharraf was illegal.

"The judges who refused to swear a fresh oath of office during the emergency ''claim that we are all the judges of the courts, and those people who took the oath ... are not legal and constitutional judges,'' he told the lawyers.

Karachi, Apr 1: Hizb chief Syed Salahuddin has sai

Islamabad, Apr 1: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has asserted that the new cabinet would work democratically and in a transparent manner for which the international community’s help would be required.

“I expect of the international community to help strengthen democracy in Pakistan,” Qureshi said.

Islamabad, Apr 1 : The Ahmedzai Wazir tribes of Waziristan have opposed the removal of the controversial Frontier Crime Regulation (FCR) from the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) announced by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani on Saturday.

“A jirga of the Ahmedzai Wazir has decided to oppose any attempt to abolish the FCR in the absence of a pre-arranged alternative system, which should be no less than Shariah,” tribal elder Malik Behram Khan told the Daily Times by phone from WANA.