COLUMNIST: RASHEED A. RAZVI
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Rasheed A. Razvi earned his law degree in Karachi and practiced as a lawyer for 20 years before joining the judiciary in 1994. He served five years as a judge on the Sindh High Court. Following the military coup and the passage of the Provisional Constitutional Order in 1999, he declined to renew his oath of office and retired from the bench. He has since continued to practice law at the level of the High Courts and Supreme Court. In 1987 he was elected president of the Karachi Bar Association; in 1988 and again in 1993 he was elected vice chairman of the Sindh Bar Council. He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Pakistan Bar Council since June 2000, and was elected its vice chairman in 2002.
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October 05, 2007Karachi, Pakistan — After the Supreme Court of Pakistan decided that exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif should be allowed to return home, he was very hopeful that upon his arrival at Islamabad Airport on Sept. 10 he would not be denied entry, or be exiled or deported.
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August 29, 2007Karachi, Pakistan — On Aug. 14 Pakistan celebrated its 60th year of independence from British rule.
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August 15, 2007Karachi, Pakistan — Election fever in Pakistan is gaining momentum day by day. Opportunist political elements have started changing their loyalties -- evident from the fact that in the last couple of months several provincial and federal parliamentarians from the ruling Paki
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August 09, 2007Karachi, Pakistan — The judiciary in Pakistan is now the center of focus of the entire nation, after the Supreme Court voted to restore Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry to his position last month. This was the result of a lawyers' uprising against the suspension of the chief