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History of Attock Jail, Attock Fort and its famous inmates

The News International 06 Aug 2023

Attock jail.—prisons.punjab.gov.pk. LAHORE ... Situated at the confluence of the Indus and Kabul Rivers, Attock city was formerly known as Campbellpur, named after Field Marshal, Colin Campbell, Commander-in-Chief of British forces during the 19th Century ... An eminent British newspaper “The Guardian” had reported ... C ... Eminent lawyers like Manzur Qadir, S.M ... .

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From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1973: Fifty Years Ago: BD recognition

Dawn 06 Jul 2023

LAHORE. A full bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan today [July 5] started examining the question of the recognition of Bangladesh vis-à-vis its legal implication ... Mr Manzur Qadir appeared as the counsel for the President ... ... ... ... .

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The once and future republic

Dawn 23 Mar 2023

The people of Pakistan would doubtless agree ... It shouldn’t have had to be a choice ... But whatever our unhappy history, the unresolved past is now returning as nightmare ... Handcrafted by just one man, Ayub’s favourite lawyer and wit, Manzur Qadir (assemblies of elected reps were perhaps thought ill-suited to drafting such a thing) ... .

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From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1973: Fifty Years Ago: Gauhar’s bail

Dawn 27 Feb 2023

KARACHI ... Mr Justice Shaikh said that the larger Bench may be constituted as the Chief Justice may desire ... … The defence counsel, Mr Manzur Qadir submitted that the Defence of Pakistan Ordinance of Nov ... Published in Dawn, February 27th, 2023. .

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From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1973: Fifty Years Ago: ’Pindi satisfied

Dawn 17 Feb 2023

RAWALPINDI. Political observers in the Federal Capital noted with satisfaction the calm in the Frontier province and Baluchistan following the Presidential action ... — News agencies ... Mr Manzur Qadir appeared for the petitioner ... Published in Dawn, February 17th, 2023. .

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Quarreling with the constitution

The News International 27 Jan 2022

Obedience to rule of law must be habitual among people ... The 1962 constitution, as rightly pointed out by several writers, was the handiwork of the late Manzur Qadir, who created constitutional apartheid, as two institutions, the military and the judiciary, were made immune from constitutional accountability ... It is surely not a perfect document ... Email.

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‘Los presidentes’

Dawn 24 Jan 2022

WE’LL call it the law of fresh starts. each government has a life cycle. In Pakistan, that life cycle is haunted by the same ghosts. cries of a national government, a London plan, a Bangladesh model ... One reason it was scrapped is that it had no buy-in from the people; it was a despot’s dream made flesh by the deft legal hand of Manzur Qadir ... .

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Police in 15 vans raid SBCA office but leave with no arrests

The News International 30 Dec 2021

Around 15 police mobile vans participated in the raid at the SBCA office ... Explaining the approval process, the source explained that Manzur Qadir, alias Manzur Kaka, who is currently believed to be in Canada following registration of National Accountability Bureau cases against him, was the director general of the SBCA at the time of the approval ... .

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Prof Tausif on journalism - Part I

The News International 01 Nov 2020

Two of Prof Tausif Ahmed’s best books are ... Tausif Ahmed quotes Zameer Niazi as saying that it was General Ayub Khan’s interior minister Brigadier F R Khan who instructed the head of the intelligence services Mian Anwar to develop a plan to take over PPL, and prominent lawyer Manzur Qadir provided the legal-cover draft ... To be continued ... Email ... .

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From Kerala to Karachi: the travails of B M Kutty - Part II

The News International 02 Sep 2019

After just three months in Karachi, Kutty moved to Lahore and started working as assistant manager at India Coffee House where he interacted with some of the best-known intellectuals of Lahore such as Manzur Qadir (who later became foreign minister of Pakistan), Abdullah Malik, and many others.

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NON-FICTION: KHUSHWANT'S PUNJAB

Dawn 03 Mar 2019

The most moving and sentimental piece in the collection, however, is Khushwant’s obituary of Manzur Qadir, his best friend from his days at Government College, Lahore. In writing about Qadir, who would go on to become an eminent lawyer and Pakistan’s foreign minister from 1958 to ...

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An Indian author’s last days in the Lahore of 1947

Quartz 15 Aug 2018

I was a lawyer practicing at the high court of Lahore (now in Pakistan) ... This continued right through the spring of the year 1947 ... This was not to be ... We picked up whatever we could in our hands, handed the keys of the house to a Muslim friend, Manzur Qadir, and joined the stream of Hindu and Sikh refugees going out of Pakistan into India ... ....

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FROM THE PAST PAGES OF DAWN: 1968: Fifty years ago: Witness declared hostile

Dawn 01 Aug 2018

DACCA. At the resumed hearing of the Agartala conspiracy case, prosecution witness Kamaluddin Ahmad, a former Navy man, was today [July 31] declared hostile after he had made wrong identifications of some of the accused. The Chief Prosecution Counsel, Mr Manzur Qadir, suggested that the witness made these wrong identifications deliberately ... .

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Special report: The Changing of the Guard 1958-1969

Dawn 02 Sep 2017

A reformer on horsebackFrom Dawn's ArchivesDawn Delhi II. Engaging With AligarhRare audio extracts. A reformer on horseback. By S. Akbar Zaidi. President Mohammad Ayub Khan is seen smiling as he leaned out of his train on his way to a US Marine Base in Okinawa, Japan, in December, 1960 ... In doing so, his own persona came pretty handy ... J ... Manzur Qadir ... M.

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Why Kashmir is at the heart of Indus Waters Treaty dispute

Kashmir Observer 23 Jan 2017

In March 1960 foreign minister Manzur Qadir, speaking in Karachi, asserted that Pakistan’s coming dependence on the western rivers heightened the importance of gaining control over them.