The free lobbyist for Aitzaz in US does wonders

Saturday, July 05, 2008 By Umar Cheema NEW YORK: Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan has an effective lobbyist in the United States, one he had never hired and one he has never paid, but one he has fathered for 31 years. A string of high profile meetings coupled with his speaking engagements at prestigious forums, has been widely discussed back in Pakistan, especially in the PPP drawing rooms. This star of the lawyers' community also has had an audience with the editorial boards of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time and Newsweek. He delivered a thanksgiving address to the capacity-packed New York Bar for extending unwavering support to the lawyers' movement in the time of crisis and gave a talk at the offices of the Amnesty International on the Pakistani situation. And he had a speaking engagement at Harvard University on... [read full story]