Kayani was also present at the March 2007 meeting that took place between Musharraf and Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, when the former military ruler informed the top judge that he was suspended.
He becomes the first Pakistani to be presented with such honour and a third person in world to receive this award other than Nelson Mandela and Oliver Hill.
A few weeks later they announced the formation of new group in Pakistan called the Revolutionary Socialist Movement, created by activists who had been involved in the lawyers and democracy protests around the sacking of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
The City Bar bestowed honorary membership on Pakistan's former Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who had become a symbol of the movement for judicial and lawyer independence in Pakistan.
Muhammad | Muhammad Ali | Muhammad Yunus | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Muhammad Iqbal | Muhammad Ali of Egypt | Hussain Muhammad Ershad | Muhammad Shah | Raja Muhammad Fayyaz Ahmad | Muhammad al-Mahdi | Iftikhar Thakur | Muhammad Ahmad | Muhammad Abdul Qadeer Siddiqi Qadri | Nur Muhammad Taraki | Muhammad Saleh Kamboh | Muhammad al-Baqir | Idris Muhammad | Atta Muhammad Nur | Shafi Muhammad Burfat | Muhammad Siddique Dar | Muhammad Shahidullah | Muhammad Shafiq Jamal | Muhammad Ibrahim Habsade | Muhammad al-Tawil of Huesca | Muhammad al-Idrisi | Muhammad Abduh | Mir Sher Muhammad Talpur | Mahendra Chaudhry | Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan | Amin Saad Muhammad al-Zumari |