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Musharraf releases chief opposition lawyer

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Posted online: Friday , February 01, 2008 at 11:10:46
Updated: Friday , February 01, 2008 at 11:27:52


Lahore, February 1: A Pakistani lawyer who has spearheaded opposition to President Pervez Musharraf has been released from nearly three months of detention, his wife said on Friday.

Aitzaz Ahsan, a former Member of Parliament and cabinet minister under assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, was detained under emergency powers that Musharraf invoked on Nov 3.

"He was released last night," Ahsan's wife, Bushra, said in Lahore.

"He's very upbeat about life. He's very happy. He has gone to Lahore High Court to address the bar."

Ahsan, president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, was held at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi for nearly three weeks before being transferred to house arrest in Lahore.

He rose to prominence last year when he acted as chief counsel for Iftikhar Chaudhry, the Supreme Court chief justice whom Musharraf tried to sack last March.

Chaudhry's suspension whipped up a campaign against Musharraf by lawyers and opposition activists.

That culminated in Musharraf's declaration of an emergency, when Chaudhry and dozens of other judges seen as hostile to then army chief Musharraf's October re-election by legislators were purged.

Chaudhry and several other judges remain under house arrest.

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Freedom of Civil Society by tauseef rasheed on 01 Feb 2008

Ch Atizaz Ahsan is a true hero. Pakistanis should be proud that he stood for supremecy and rule of law. But the job is not done as we need to struggle and ensure that dictatorship ends in our country and elected popular leaders take control of country destiny.

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