I’m delighted that, finally, the Pakistani government has given way to pressure from lawyers and Nawaz Sharif’s PML-N party, and decided to reinstate the Chief Justice Iktikhar Chaudhry and the remaining handful of judges deposed by General Musharraf when […]

It seems that they’re inching in Islamabad towards restoration of the judges deposed by General Musharraf, and to the constitutional position before the emergency he declared as a means of hanging on to power. The Guardian says three supreme […]

It sounds like good news on the face of it, that Pakistan’s governing parties are considering starting impeachment proceedings in Parliament against President Musharraf. I’m not against it. But much more important is the issue of reinstating judges sacked […]

I’m sorry to say the new Pakistani government has been dragging its feet about restoring the judges deposed by General Musharraf last November – but I’m glad to say the lawyers’ movement is keeping up the pressure with a big […]

I’ve not blogged about Pakistan for a while, but of course I’m delighted that there’s now a new government under Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, and that following his first order, political prisoners including deposed Chief Justice Iftihkhar Chaudhry […]

As I said to Charon in his weekly review yesterday, it’s time I blogged again about Pakistan. The outcome of the elections means the next government is almost certain to be a coalition between the Pakistan People’s Party, formerly […]

Charon QC latest interviewee is Andrew Holroyd, President of the Law Society – who talks to him about the Society’s work on Zimbabwe and Pakistan, which you’ll know is an issue I’ve been concerned about since the lawyers’ protests […]

I couldn’t agree more with this New York Times editorial piece – I’m glad the Times is arguing strongly for a democratic approach in Pakistan, rather than just Realpolitik; and that it’s calling for the […]

There’s an article in today’s New York Times about some of the lawyers involved in protests against Musharraf’s emergency – it concludes that the protest is “on hold”: but it’s clearly not finished.

Well, since I last posted, Benazir Bhutto’s been assassinated; President Musharraf has asked for help from the British police; and elections have been postponed until February. What began in November as a constitutional law issue, which I posted on because […]