{"id":485,"date":"2008-11-19T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/2008\/11\/19\/pakistan-cj-in-new-york\/"},"modified":"2008-11-19T07:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T07:36:00","slug":"pakistan-cj-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/chief-justice-iftikhar-muhammad-chaudhry\/pakistan-cj-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan CJ in New York."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/im.rediff.com\/news\/2008\/nov\/19nlook.jpg\"><img  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 225px\"  alt=\"\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"http:\/\/im.rediff.com\/news\/2008\/nov\/19nlook.jpg\" ><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Image: Chaudhry (left) is welcomed by William Treanor, Dean of Law School at the Fordham University in New York on Tuesday. Photograph: Jay Mandal\/On Assignment<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><br \/><\/span>The 23,000-member New York City Bar Association conferred its honourary membership to , the deposed chief justice of Pakistan&#8217;s Supreme Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In his address, Justice Chaudhry thanked American lawyers for supporting the lawyers&#8217; movement in Pakistan in their struggle to restore an independent judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>Former Chief Justice of India P N Bhagwati is also an earlier recipient of this honour.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Chaudhry was given a rousing citizens&#8217; reception in New York. Some Pakistanis had travelled from as far away as California and various points in Canada [Images] to welcome the deposed judge. The meeting arranged in his honour at a Brooklyn restaurant was jampacked with people.<\/p>\n<p>Chaudhry is on a three-city tour visiting and lecturing on the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rediff.com\/news\/2008\/nov\/19look-deposed-pak-cj-in-nyc.htm\">http:\/\/www.rediff.com\/news\/2008\/nov\/19look-deposed-pak-cj-in-nyc.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Chaudhry (left) is welcomed by William Treanor, Dean of Law School at the Fordham University in New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-chief-justice-iftikhar-muhammad-chaudhry","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}