Politics of Sindh - Politics of Karachi, 2007 Karachi Riots, Altaf Hussain, Syed Mustafa Kamal, Naimatullah Khan, Pakhtun Loya Jirga (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Politics of Karachi, 2007 Karachi Riots, Altaf Hussain, Syed Mustafa Kamal, Naimatullah Khan, Pakhtun Loya Jirga, Operation Clean-Up, Karachi Labour Unrest of 1972, Shahi Sayed, Lala Fazal-Ur-Rehman, Abdul Sattar Afghani, Punjabi Pakhtun Ittehad. Excerpt: On May 12, 2007, riots erupted across Karachi, capital of the province of Sindh and the most populous city in Pakistan. During the riots city roads were blocked, cars burned and hundreds of people were injured, killed and arrested, most of them political workers. Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Awami National Party (ANP) members fought with Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). The most recent reports of the incident also included a death count that rose to as high as forty-three people. MQM, the coalition partner in the provincial government, announced a rally on the same day as the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) announced a rally to welcome Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in Karachi. Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was coming to address the city bar association on the 50th anniversary of establishment of the Sindh High Court Bar Association. Chaudhry had been suspended from his post as Chief Justice by President Pervez Musharraf on March 9, 2007 for alleged misconduct. Musharraf's actions led to a degree of unrest in Pakistan both with regards to the validity of the allegations, as well as doubt as to whether Musharraf actually had the power to suspend the Chief Justice under the circumstances. There had been previous conflict between Chaudhry and Musharraf, specifically with regard to the Pakistan Steel Mills case in which Chaudhry ruled against the sale of Pakistan's state-run steel mills at a "throw-away price". During his time on the bench, Chaudhry also presided over the con... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11193203