LAHORESenior leader of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Aitzaz Ahsan has decided to step down from his Senate seat, reported a private TV channel on Tuesday.Aitzaz Ahsan forwarded his resignation to the PPP leadership on Tuesday after his wife Bushra Aitzaz lost elections from NA-124 ...

LAHORE Aitzaz Ahsan, renowned lawyer and senior PPP leader has stated that the caretaker government is bound to implement the Supreme Court orders if issued to register treason case against former President Pervez Musharraf under Article 6 of Constitution.He, however, said that these cases can ...

The caretaker government is bound to initiate proceedings under Article 6 of the constitution against Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf, if given such directions by the Supreme Court of Pakistan.This was stated by barrister Aitzaz Ahsan, who was commenting on the cases against the former president, here ...

Musharraf is lucky to be kept in house arrest as he fled after being given arrest orders by Islamabad High Court (IHC).This was stated by renowned lawyer and ex-counsel of former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan while commenting on the case, here on Thursday.The senator ...

PPP leader Aitzaz Ahsan has said that judiciary is equally responsible for ex president Musharraf’s exile.Barrister Aitzaz while talking to the media in front of Lahore High Court said that why the judiciary did not take suo motu notice when ex-president Pervez Musharraf left the country.He ...

Senior PPP leader Aitzaz Ahsan fears a delay in elections due to printing of amended nomination papers.Speaking to reporters here in Islamabad on Wednesday, Aitzaz Ahsan said the Supreme Court could find an excuse to delay the general elections after this step of the Election ...

OXFORD – Last Sunday, Senator Aitzaz Ahsan was the keynote speaker at the Oxford Union. He was the guest of the Oxford University Pakistan Society (OUPS) for Pakistan Future Leaders’ Conference, 2013 (PFLC 2013). It was the fourth running year of this conference that was initiated by ...

ISLAMABAD  – Pakistan People’s Party Senator Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan on Wednesday excused himself from representing Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain in the contempt of court case.Talking to the media, Ahsan said he could not take the case due to the fact that Chief ...

Prominent legal luminary, Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan on Wednesday excused himself from representing Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s chief Altaf Hussain in the contempt of court notice against him.Speaking to media persons, Ahsan said he could not take the case due to the fact that Chief Justice ...

LAHORE - Senior lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan, who represented former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in the NRO order implementation case, says he is still not sure if the government will write a letter to the Swiss authorities.“There’s still many a slip between the cup and the lip,” he ...

Former Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Senator Aitzaz Ahsan on Monday said that Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, if opts not to write the letter to the Swiss authorities, will face a fate not different from that of the former prime ...

KARACHI/RAWALPINDI - Senior lawyer Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan and Zahid Bokhari, the counsel for Malik Riaz who is the main character in the controversy involving Arsalan Iftikhar, have been banned from entering all the bars of Sindh.Karachi Bar Association President Mehmoodul Hassan on Saturday said ...

Former Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Aitzaz Ahsan said the punishment meted out to Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani in contempt of court case, is unconstitutional. Talking to media here, the PM Gilani’s counsel said the ...

Prime Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani’s lawyer in the contempt of court case, Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, said on Tuesday he anticipated justice rather than favor from the Supreme Court. After completing his arguments in support of his client, Ahsan told the media in the courtyard of the apex court that in ...

Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s Counsel in the contempt of court case Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan has said the court has the authority to award prison sentence to the PM but hoped that the matter would not go to the extent of sentence. Talking to media at Aiwan-e-Iqbal after a function in ...

 Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan, pleading the case of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani before seven-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC), said on Wednesday that he is not employing delaying tactics to give the case undue length.Talking to media before leaving for the apex court hearing the ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted one more day to Aitzaz Ahsan to conclude arguments in the Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani contempt of court case by Thursday.Last week a seven-member bench, headed by Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk Aitzaz, ad asked Aitzaz to complete arguments by Wednesday, ...

ISLAMABAD - Eminent lawyer-turned-politician and PPP stalwart Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan has replaced Dr Babar Awan to represent the Federation in the presidential reference to reopen Zulfikar Ali Bhutto case filed with the apex court. A well-placed source late Sunday night informed APP that the ...

Former president of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and Pakistan People’s Party leader Senator Aitzaz Ahsan on Friday warned a section of media against legal action for “false reporting”.Talking to media outside the Supreme Court, Aitzaz said that a newspaper termed him as a ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Monday turned down Aitzaz Ahsan’s plea to adjourn the Prime Minister’s contempt of court case for one week.A seven-member bench headed by Justice Nasirul Mulk, however, adjourned the hearing of PM contempt case till Tuesday (today).At the start of the ...

Despite much criticism, Aitzaz Ahsan, is doing his best to bail out his client in distress by pleading his case before the Supreme Court. As a lawyer, he is duty bound to represent any client who pays him or rewards him in numerous other ways. The only selfless feat Aitzaz ever achieved was when he ...

Barister Aitzaz Ahsan, who all along took the view that there was no harm in writing a letter to Swiss authorities, has suddenly taken an about turn, and is now strongly advocating that the letter should not be written. His main reason for this stance is that the foreigners look after their ...

People of Pakistan elected PM Gillani to serve as custodian of state exchequer, discharge his obligations and perform his duties strictly in accordance with constitution. Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan, a known constitutional expert has made an analogy between the case of Raymond Davis and Swiss Case ...

RENALA KHURD - The PPP leader announced here that Senator Aitzaz Ahsan will visit the district wherein he will inaugurate the tram road on Friday (today).While addressing the party meeting, PPP District Okara Ashraf Khan Sohna assured the workers that the party would resolve their problems on ...

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Thursday adjourned hearing of a plea seeking disqualification of PPP Senator Aitzaz Ahsan and asked the petitioner’s counsel for arguments on whether the court had authority to disqualify any senator. Tariq Mahmood had in his petition alleged that Ahsan owned ...

Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani's lawyer in the contempt of court case, Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan has said that detailed reply regarding the case would be submitted in the Supreme Court on March 19.Talking to media persons outside the SC building here in Islamabad on Wednesday, Aitzaz said that SC ...

ISLAMABAD  - Former Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President and counsel for Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani in contempt of court case, Aitzaz Ahsan on Thursday said that former Law Minister Babar Awan should have appeared before the court in the contempt case.Talking to media ...

The PPP's newly elected Senator and former president of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan on Saturday said that he was not a candidate for chairmanship of Senate.He said he will be available to perform any duty assigned to him by the PPP government.Talking to media persons ...

Pakistan People's Party's (PPP) candidate for Senate, Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidates Ishaq Dar and Kamran Michael have been elected as senators unopposed.The Election Commission on Monday issued notification declaring three candidates as successful. It ...

Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan of PPP and Ishaq Dar of PML-N were elected as Senators unopposed on Thursday.No candidates of any party had submitted nomination papers for the two technocrat seats from Punjab except Aitzaz Ahsan and Ishaq Dar.The former president Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), who is ...