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Latif Afridi
Abdul Latif Afridi (Pashto/ ur, ), also known as Latif Lala (), is a lawyer and Pashtun nationalist politician who was formerly the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan. He is a senior leader of the National Democratic Movement (NDM). He was a member of the National Assembly between 1997 and 1999, the first provincial president of the Awami National Party (ANP) between 1986 and 1989, and the General Secretary of ANP between 2005 and 2007. He has also served as the president of the Peshawar High Court Bar Association and the vice-chairman of the Pakistan Bar Council. He is a supporter of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). Early life Abdul Latif Afridi was born in 1943 in Tirah, Khyber Agency. He did his Master's from Peshawar University in 1966. Two years later, he did his LLB from the same institution. He was expelled from the university for supporting Fatima Jinnah in the 1964 presidential election. In 1979, he joined the Ghaus Bux Bizenjo-led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawyer
A lawyer is a person who practices law. The role of a lawyer varies greatly across different legal jurisdictions. A lawyer can be classified as an advocate, attorney, barrister, canon lawyer, civil law notary, counsel, counselor, solicitor, legal executive, or public servant — with each role having different functions and privileges. Working as a lawyer generally involves the practical application of abstract legal theories and knowledge to solve specific problems. Some lawyers also work primarily in advancing the interests of the law and legal profession. Terminology Different legal jurisdictions have different requirements in the determination of who is recognized as being a lawyer. As a result, the meaning of the term "lawyer" may vary from place to place. Some jurisdictions have two types of lawyers, barrister and solicitors, while others fuse the two. A barrister (also known as an advocate or counselor in some jurisdictions) is a lawyer who typically specia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawyers' Movement
The Lawyers' Movement, also known as the Movement for the Restoration of Judiciary or the Black Coat Protests, was the popular mass protest movement initiated by the lawyers of Pakistan in response to the former president and army chief Pervez Musharraf's actions of 9 March 2007 when he unconstitutionally suspended Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as the chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court. Following the suspension of the chief justice, the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) declared the judge's removal as an "assault on the independence of judiciary" and were backed by several political parties. History Suspension of Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry In the first few months of 2007, several conflicts had already raged between chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and the Pakistani government. Chaudhry had worked hard to clear a backlog of cases at the Supreme Court and had "akenon politically controversial issues", particularly with regard to the Pakistan Steel Mills corruptio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awami National Party Politicians
In Urdu language, Awami is the adjectival form for '' Awam'', the Urdu language word for common people. The adjective appears in the following proper names: *Awami Colony, a neighbourhood of Landhi Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan *Awami Front, was a front of six Muslim political parties in Uttar Pradesh, India * Awami Muslim League (Pakistan), a Pakistani political party *Awami National Party, a secular and leftist Pashtun nationalist political party in Pakistan *Bangladesh Awami League, often simply called the Awami League or AL, one of the two major political parties of Bangladesh *National Awami Party, progressive political party in East and West Pakistan *National Awami Party (Bhashani), split-off from National Awami Party in East Pakistan *National Awami Party (Wali), Wali Khan faction of the National Awami Party was formed after the 1967 split in the original National Awami Party *National Awami Party (Muzaffar) or Bangladesh National Awami Party, political party in Banglade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pashtun People
Pashtuns (, , ; ps, پښتانه, ), also known as Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Iranian ethnic group who are native to the geographic region of Pashtunistan in the present-day countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were historically referred to as Afghans () or xbc, αβγανο () until the 1970s, when the term's meaning officially evolved into that of a demonym for all residents of Afghanistan, including those outside of the Pashtun ethnicity. The group's native language is Pashto, an Iranian language in the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. Additionally, Dari Persian serves as the second language of Pashtuns in Afghanistan while those in the Indian subcontinent speak Urdu and Hindi (see Hindustani language) as their second language. Pashtuns are the 26th-largest ethnic group in the world, and the largest segmentary lineage society; there are an estimated 350–400 Pashtun tribes and clans with a variety of origin theories. The total popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1943 Births
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – WWII: Greek-Polish athlete and saboteur Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz is executed by the Germans at Kaisariani. * January 11 ** The United States and United Kingdom revise previously unequal treaty relationships with the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China. ** Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City. * January 13 – Anti-Nazi protests in Sofia result in 200 arrests and 36 executions. * January 14 – January 24, 24 – WWII: Casablanca Conference: Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; and Generals Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud of the Free French forces meet secretly at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, to plan the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afrasiab Khattak
Afrasiab Khattak ( ps, افراسیاب خټک; ) is a Pashtun nationalist politician and political analyst who is a senior leader of the National Democratic Movement (NDM). He has formerly served as the chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), a member of the Senate of Pakistan (2009–2014), and the provincial president of the Awami National Party (ANP). He is an activist in the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). Khattak started his political activism in the 1970s but went to the Soviet Union to avoid the Great Purge authorised by the regime of General Zia-ul-Haq. Inspired by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Khattak joined the pro-Soviet Communist Party of Pakistan. He later joined the socialist National Awami Party in 1980 and later went into asylum in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan, serving as the top adviser to the Soviet government in matters involving Afghanistan. After the Fall of Kabul, Khattak returned to Pakistan and founded the Afghan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afzal Khan Lala
Muhammed Afzal Khan Lala also known as Afzal Khan Lala (1926 – 1 November 2015) was a Pashtun nationalist, former Pakistani provincial and Federal minister from the Swat valley in the North-West Frontier Province. Hailing from the Yousafzai Tribe of Bara Durushkhela village of Matta, Swat and a senior member of the Awami National Party, he survived several assassination attempts allegedly by the supporters of Maulana Fazlullah. Lineage khan lala linage is as below: Afzal khan s/o muhmmad habib khan(darmi khan) s/o hussain khan s/o arsala khan s/o muhmmad alam khan s/o zarif khan s/o hussain khan(budha khel) s/o muhammad khan(mama khel) s/o nusrat khan s/o muhmmad khan(muhammad khel) s/o sham khan (shamizai) s/o khwaja mohd khan (khwaja zai) s/o ako (akozai) s/o yousaf (yousafzai) s/o mand s/o sheekha s/o kand s/o kharshabun s/o sarban s/o qais(abdur rasheed) s/o aees. Political career Afzal Khan began his political career affiliated with National Awami Party (NAP) in oppo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayaz Latif Palijo
Ayaz Latif Palijo ( Sindhi, ur, اياز لطیف پلیجو) (born 15 November 1968, Thatta, Sindh, Pakistan) is a politician, lawyer, activist, writer and teacher. Palijo is the current president of Qomi Awami Tahreek (Peoples National Movement), central convener and founder of the Sindh Progressive Nationalist Alliance (SPNA), one of the founders and central Secretary General of Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA). Since 2007, he has represented the left, objecting to the division of the southeastern Pakistan province of Sindh. Early life and education Palijo's mother Jeejee Zarina Baloch was a Baloch women's rights activist, founder of Sindhiani Tahreek, writer, artist and teacher. His father Rasool Bux Palijo, was a Sindhi leftist, scholar, writer and founder of Awami Tahreek. At age eleven, Palijo was the central secretary-general of the Gulan Jahra Barira and the Sujag Bar Tahreek, the children's wing of the Qomi Awami Tahreek. He was then a university student activis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qazi Anwar
Qazi Anwar or Qazi Muhammad Anwar ( ur, ) is a former attorney general, constitutional lawyer, president of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan (SCBAP) and former senator. A former activist in the Pakistan Peoples Party, he joined the Awami National Party (ANP) in 1994 in protest against the dismissal of the provincial government by the federal government. He also served as additional deputy secretary general of ANP. Qazi Anwar was active in opposing the suspension of Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. A Pashto & Hindko-speaker, he rejoined the Awami National Party. He was elected as president of SCBAP in 2009, defeating Barrister Bacha with support from lawyers associated with the ANP and PPP. Qazi Anwar, after his election to the office as SCBAP president, took a hard line on the issue of the independence of the judiciary Judicial independence is the concept that the judiciary should be independent from the other branches of government. That is, courts sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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