The leaders of Pakistan's coalition government reached agreement in Dubai on Thursday on the details of a deal on restoring superior court judges removed in November under President Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency , according to local media reports. GEO-TV said that the agreement would be formally announced at a press conference Friday, as under [...]
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The number of surveillance and search warrants approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) increased again in 2007 to a record 2,370 warrants, according to a report released Wednesday by the US Department of Justice. The 2007 figure was up nine percent from 2006, when the FISC approved 2,176 warrants . The number of [...]
US military personnel – including Army psychologists and medics – continued to use or support "abusive" interrogation tactics even after such methods were prohibited by a 2003 memorandum, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Wednesday. According to documents obtained by the ACLU pursuant to a 2004 Freedom of Information Act request, psychologists and medical [...]
The US Justice Department will share internal legal opinions authorizing the use of harsh interrogation tactics with members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, Deputy Assistant Attorney General John P. Elwood told a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. Elwood's comments came during a subcommittee hearing on "Secret Law and the Threat [...]
US District Judge Beverly Martin on Wednesday rejected a challenge to Georgia's lethal injection protocol, ruling that the state's execution procedures were similar to Kentucky's method, determined by the Supreme Court to be constitutional . Convicted murderer Jack Alderman had argued that the Georgia's lethal injection protocol is unconstitutional as it creates a substantial risk [...]
US Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher Wednesday announced her resignation effective May 23. Fisher served as the head of the DOJ's Criminal Division, which concentrated primarily on fraud and corruption cases under her tenure. AP has more. In 2005, US President George W. Bush used a recess appointment to name Fisher to the top post [...]
Faisal Naseem Chaudhry : "In Pakistan's February 18 elections, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), i.e. the PML (N), emerged as the two major parties in parliament respectively. On March 09 this year, both parties signed the six-point "Murree Declaration", the second point of which indicated that the judges ousted by [...]
Top members of Pakistan's government coalition Wednesday failed to reach an agreement on restoring judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf last year after he declared emergency rule , but vowed to continue discussions Thursday. The two leading coalition parties, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and the Pakistan People's Party , reportedly disagree on the amount of [...]
US military judge Navy Capt. Keith Allred Wednesday set down terms under which Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan can question suspected al Qaeda leaders currently in US custody at Guantanamo as part of his defense effort. Hamdan's defense team had asked for "two-way" communications to be allowed between Hamdan and several other detainees, but [...]
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