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Pakistan's chief justice retires after protests
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Mar 21, 2009 11:24am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Saturday, March 21, 2009 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By STEPHEN GRAHAM
The Associated Press
Saturday, March 21, 2009; 11:00 AM
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's Supreme Court chief justice retired Saturday, making way for the restoration of a judge ousted by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf and championed by opponents of the current pro-Western government.
Abdul Hameed Dogar stepped aside because he reaches the retirement age of 65 on Sunday. Dogar was sworn in as chief justice after Musharraf declared emergency rule and purged the court in 2007 to halt challenges to his plans to extend his rule.
Musharraf was eventually pushed from office by a coalition that trounced his supporters in 2008 elections, denounced the emergency, and vowed to restore the ousted judges, who had become symbols of a movement to restore democracy.
However, new President Asif Ali Zardari balked at bringing back independent-minded Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry until opposition parties and activist lawyers threatened mass protests in the capital last week. |
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