Musharraf booked for illegally detaining lawyers during emergency

October 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Highly dissatisfied with the third draft of the HIV/AIDS bill which the law ministry has proposed, nearly 200 people, including those living with HIV, staged a protest outside the ministry office in the capital Wednesday. According to the protesters, many of whom have come from as far as Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata to take part in the protest, 38 key provisions necessary to safeguard the rights of HIV positive people have been deleted in the draft.

October 19th, 2009 LAHORE - It seems the floodgates have opened with regard to court cases against Musharraf, with a sessions court in Pakistan's Dera Ghazi Khan ordering the police to register a case against the former President for detaining lawyers illegally. The court also directed it to register a case against the then Punjab Home Secretary Khusro Pervaiz, the Daily Times reports.

October 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's National Assembly is to meet Nov 2 to examine 37 ordinances promulgated by former president Pervez Musharraf, including the one granting immunity to politicians, military officers and bureaucrats charged with corruption, media reports said Monday. Key among these is the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) Musharraf promulgated in October 2007 to enable the return from exile of former prime minister Benzair Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari, who is now the president of Pakistan.

October 14th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Indian student Puneet Puneet, who fled to India after running over a teenager, had partied hard with his friends before leaving, a court was told Wednesday. Dean Hofstee, a 19-year-old from Queensland, was killed when Puneet, a 19-year-old cookery student, lost control on City Road, Southbank, in October last year.

October 14th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A case has been registered against former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf for his alleged role in the 2006 murder of Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, a lawyer said. Others named in the first information report (FIR) are former prime minister Shaukat Aziz, North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Owais Ahmad Ghani, former interior minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Serpao and former Balochistan chief minister Jam Yousaf, advocate Sohail Raput told Geo TV.

October 7th, 2009 QUETTA - The Balochistan High Court (BHC) has ordered the concerned authorities to book former President General Pervez Musharraf along with former Prime Minister Sahukat Aziz and former Balochistan Chief Minister Jaam Yousuf for the murder of Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti. Sources said BHC Chief Justice has directed the Station Head Officer (SHO) of the Dera Bugti police station to register a case against Musharraf and others in connection with Bugti's murder.

September 30th, 2009 KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait will deport 17,000 foreigners, including Indians and Pakistanis, illegally staying in the country, the Online news agency reported Wednesday. Over 1,000 Pakistanis, 3,500 Indians and 4,000 Bangladeshis are staying illegally in the country, according to the interior ministry.

September 28th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A Pakistani court Monday issued notice to former president Pervez Musharraf and nine others after they failed to appear for a hearing in a case relating to the Dec 27, 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Judge Ejaz Ahmad Chaudhry of the Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High court issued the notice on a petition filed by Chaudhry Aslam, Bhutto's former protocol officer, seeking the registration of a first information report (FIR) on her killing.

September 23rd, 2009 Prosecutors to file amended complaint in drug caseLOS ANGELES — Defense lawyers in the drug case surrounding the death of Anna Nicole Smith have been notified that prosecutors will file an amended complaint at a discovery hearing. The document set to be disclosed at a Wednesday morning hearing increases the number of charges against Smith's lawyer boyfriend Howard K.Stern who is billed as an aider and abettor of two doctors charged with prescribing for Smith the drugs that killed her.

September 10th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) has asked the Supreme Court to hear afresh the petition against Gen Pervez Musharraf for violating the court's order in sending party leader Nawaz Sharif to Saudi Arabia in 2007. An SC bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had overturned a ban on the Sharif brothers to contest elections and hold public offices, but Sharif was sent back to Saudi Arabia when he returned to Pakistan on September 10, 2007.

September 8th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Orissa Tuesday sent back 16 Bangladeshi nationals, who were accused of illegally crossing into Indian territorial waters last year, nearly two months after a court in the state acquitted them, officials said. As many as 17 Bangladeshi nationals - all fishermen - were arrested in October last year by the state police for illegally fishing in the Bay of Bengal, some 35 nautical miles off the Paradip Port in the Jagatsinghpur district, some 100 km from state capital Bhubaneswar.

September 8th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Jamil Bugti, son of late Baloch leader Akbar Bugti, has moved the Balochistan High Court seeking registration of a first information report (FIR) against former president Pervez Musharraf and four others over his father's death. Jamil Bugti wants the complaint to be registered against Musharraf, former prime minister Shaukat Aziz, former Balochistan governor Owais Ahmed Ghani, former Balochistan chief minister Jam Mohammad Yousuf and former interior minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, Dawn website reported Tuesday.

September 2nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A contempt of court petition was filed Wednesday in the Supreme Court of Pakistan against former president Pervez Musharraf for imposing emergency in 2007. Anwar-ul-Haq, a medical practitioner in Islamabad, filed the petition in the court Wednesday saying Musharraf breached the Constitution and violated the Supreme Courts order by imposing emergency rule Nov 3, 2007, Geo TV reported.

September 1st, 2009 LAHORE - The Lahore High Court has summoned former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf and 10 others in a case relating to the Dec 27, 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Among others, judge Ejaz Ahmed Chaudhry summoned to appear Sep 28 are Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Babar Awan and then Punjab chief minister Pervez Elahi, Online news agency reported.

September 1st, 2009 JEDDAH - Saudi Arabia Tuesday said it is not in favour of a trial against former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf which could further deteriorate the volatile political situation in that country, the Online news agency reported. Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Tuesday urged the Pakistani leadership to abide by the agreement reached at the time of Musharraf's resignation that no action would be taken against the former president.