Iqbal Raad

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Iqbal Raad was a Pakistani lawyer associated with the Pakistan Muslim League (N). [1] [2] He had been Advocate General of Sindh until 1999. [3] In 2000 he was one of the lead defense lawyers in the trial of ousted Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif. [4] On 10 March 2000 he was killed in his office in Karachi by three gunmen, while a fourth stood guard at the entrance to the building. [5] [6] He was 52 years old at the time of his death. [7] In 2005, ten Muttahida Qaumi Movement activists were acquitted of the murder. [8]

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  1. ↑ Sharif lawyer laid to rest, BBC News, 11 March, 2000.
  2. ↑ "Murdered Pakistani Lawyer Received Threats During Sharif Trial Archived 2014-12-19 at the Wayback Machine ", CNN.com, March 11, 2000.
  3. ↑ Tariq Butt, "Murder of forgotten PML-N lawyer recalled in Supreme Court", The News International , September 9, 2011.
  4. ↑ Ian Preston (ed.), A Political Chronology of Central, South and East Asia (2001), p. 232.
  5. ↑ Tony Karon, "Pakistan shooting clouds Clinton's visit", Time.com, March 10, 2000.
  6. ↑ Defense lawyers boycott Pakistan's Sharif trial", CNN.com, March 13, 2000.
  7. ↑ "Ex-Pakistani Premier's Lawyer Gunned Down", Los Angeles Times , March 11, 2000.
  8. ↑ "Muttahida activists acquitted in Raad case", Dawn.com, Jan. 15, 2005.
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