By Ali Raza in The News, Dec 01, 2023LAHORE: Former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) supremo Nawaz Sharif met different party leaders including former premier Shehbaz Sharif, here on Thursday. Along with party Chief Organiser Maryam Nawaz, he reached the PMLN Model Town office and spent a busy day there. Shehbaz, in his meeting, congratulated his brother Nawaz Sharif on his acquittal in Avenfield reference. He expressed good wishes for him and…
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Editorial in Dawn, February 20th, 2023A RELEASE on bail in Karachi and an acquittal in Peshawar — each one significant in its own right, but coming within 24 hours of each other, they suggest something momentous may be afoot. Last Tuesday, South Waziristan MNA and Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement leader Ali Wazir won his freedom after more than two years’ imprisonment at the Karachi Central Jail on multiple charges of sedition. The next day, the parents…
by Zyma Islam in The Daily Star, Jan 15, 2023Only two percent of the people accused under the Digital Security Act saw their cases come to a close with the court handing either a conviction, an acquittal or the dismissal of the case. This is according to the data collected by the Centre for Governance Studies (CGS), who logged each case filed between October 2018 and August 2022. It recorded 1,109 cases filed under the…