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