Faisal Naseem Chaudhry : "In Pakistan's February 18 elections, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), i.e. the PML (N), emerged as the two major parties in parliament respectively. On March 09 this year, both parties signed the six-point "Murree Declaration", the second point of which indicated that the judges ousted by [...]
Top members of Pakistan's government coalition Wednesday failed to reach an agreement on restoring judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf last year after he declared emergency rule , but vowed to continue discussions Thursday. The two leading coalition parties, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and the Pakistan People's Party , reportedly disagree on the amount of [...]
US military judge Navy Capt. Keith Allred Wednesday set down terms under which Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan can question suspected al Qaeda leaders currently in US custody at Guantanamo as part of his defense effort. Hamdan's defense team had asked for "two-way" communications to be allowed between Hamdan and several other detainees, but [...]
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A federal judge Wednesday set January 6, 2009 for the third terrorism prosecution of six men charged with conspiring to bomb the Sears Tower in Chicago and the FBI headquarters in Miami after two previous prosecutions ended in mistrials. Earlier this month, US District Judge Joan A. Lenard declared the second mistrial after the jury [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the city of New York against gun manufacturers, ruling that gun makers were immune from suit under a 2005 federal law that shields the firearms industry from civil lawsuits brought by cities, municipalities and victims of gun crimes. The [...]
Zimbabwean police have launched investigations into at least 100 cases of alleged fraud in the March 29 contested presidential election , officials said Wednesday. Police have arrested voters accused of voting multiple times in the election, as well as several Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) officials accused of accepting bribes to miscount votes in favor of [...]
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday vowed to push for the passage of a new anti-terror bill that would allow British authorities to detain terror suspects up to 42 days without charge. Current law only authorizes detention without charge for 28 days , but bill proponents have argued that this time limit endangers national security. [...]
A US military judge Wednesday rejected arguments that Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr was a child soldier when he was captured in Afghanistan and that the US military commission responsible for his trial lacks jurisdiction over the case. In a motion filed with US military judge Col. Peter Brownback in January, Khadr's lawyers had asked [...]
The Australian government will introduce legislation to amend over 100 federal laws to remove discrimination against same-sex couples , Australian Attorney General Robert McClelland said Wednesday. The legislation, which will be introduced during the winter sitting of parliament and is expected to be implemented by mid-2009, will not allow same-sex marriages. Many of the amendments [...]
