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Pakistan's Shaky Dictatorship
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| Contributor | Guy |
| Last Edited | Guy Apr 06, 2007 10:37pm |
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| Category | Opinion |
| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Thursday, April 5, 2007 06:45:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Pakistan's President-General, Pervez Musharraf, is facing his worst crisis since he took power in a coup in October 1999. The last three weeks of March have seen violent protests in Islamabad, Lahore and other cities led by black-suited lawyers but followed, increasingly, by once-docile political parties, including the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. All scent that more than seven years of military rule may be coming to a close.
The crisis began on March 9, when Musharraf suspended Pakistan's Chief Justice, Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, allegedly for abuse of office. Most of Pakistan's legal fraternity--and many, many others--saw this as a ruse to remove an unusually truculent judge. Musharraf wants to be re-elected for another five-year presidential term by an existing Parliament rigged in his favor. He also wants to remain army chief. In February Chaudhry told military cadets that in his opinion, Musharraf could not remain as both president and army chief beyond the expiry of his current presidential term in October. "That's why he was sacked," says a government insider. |
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