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Three KBA members shot dead near Aram Bagh area in Karachi

  Three lawyers were killed when unidentified armed men opened fire on their car near then Aram Bagh area of Karachi. A fourth lawyers is in critical condition and is undergoing surgery at the Civil Hospital.  The police have described the act as target killing and say the attackers were riding motorcycles and chased the lawyers from the city court.  Lawyers have announced a nationwide strike in protest of the killings. According to the MLO of the civil hospital, all three of them were shot at point-blank range.  Eyewitness accounts state that the police failed to act and only opened aerial firing after the attack had already taken place.  The police were also late in cordoning off the crime scene.  Home Minister Sindh Mansoor Wasan has ordered the suspension of SHO Aram Bagh, while Interior Minister Rehman Malik has summoned a report from IG Sindh.  (The News)

Judiciary always worked within its limits: CJP Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry

By Asghar Azad KARACHI: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Saturday said that the judiciary was struggling to buttress democratic and parliamentary norms and always worked within its limits. Addressing the oath taking ceremony of the entrants of the Karachi Bar Association (KBA), he said that the judiciary had closed the door on martial law by voiding November 3, 2007 order. “In any democratic setup the judiciary has to act as an independent institution exercising jurisdictions within its constitutional domain,” he said, adding that the legislature and executive are also independent and they are also bound to exercise their authorities. “Judiciary is the custodian of constitution and has to check constitutional deviation and arbitrary uses of power by other institutions,” he said. “In the present democratic setup, judiciary is trying to buttress democratic and parliamentary norms and it has never tried to assume the role of the exe