US lawmakers introduce bill to strip terror suspects of citizenship rights
A group of US lawmakers introduced a bill Thursday that would strip US citizenship rights from those suspected of engaging in terrorism . The Terrorist Expatriation Act (TEA) , introduced by Senators...
US Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that Pakistani-born US citizen Faisal Shahzad will face terrorism charges for his alleged role in an attempted car bombing in New York City's Times Square. Shahzad was taken...
JURIST Guest Columnists Moeen Cheema of Australian National University College of Law and Shahzad Akbar, an advocate practicing at the Lahore High Court in Pakistan, say that since Pakistan President's Zardari's refusal to appoint judges to the Lahore High Court...
'Liberal' Fundamentalism in Pakistan: Objecting to Islamic Arguments in NRO
JURIST Guest Columnists Moeen Cheema of Australian National University College of Law and Shahzad Akbar, an advocate practicing at the Lahore High Court in Pakistan, say that liberal lawyers and rights advocates historically supportive of the superior courts' public interest...
Pakistani authorities have released more than 3400 lawyers and political activists detained in the aftermath of President Pervez Musharraf's November 3 declaration of emergency rule , Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Igbal Cheema told AFP Tuesday, adding...
