i think this is really good news - the first from pakistan in quite a while. but, since i am an outsider, i would like to know what pakistanis here feel about this - is it a good thing? a hopeful sign of coming change?
(sorry to make so many threads on pakistan, but so much is happening there lately and i'm interested in hearing what our pakistani members' reactions are.)
Ruling puts limit on days in uniform for Musharraf
By Farhan Bokhari and Jo Johnson
Published: July 21 2007 03:00 | Last updated: July 21 2007 03:00
General Pervez Musharraf's hopes to have himself re-elected as Pakistan's president in uniform later this year have been plunged into doubt by the Supreme Court's 10-3 decision to re-instate Pakistan's most senior judge, Iftikhar Chaudhry.
"He can no longer be sure that the Supreme Court will be a doormat," G. Parthasarathy, a former Indian high commissioner to Pakistan, says. "His plan to wear a uniform indefinitely is as good as over."
The Supreme Court's verdict that Gen Musharraf acted illegally in summarily suspending Mr Chaudhry from his duties as chief justice on March 9 marks a historic moment for the Pakistani judiciary, lawyers say.
"It's what the nation wanted," Salman Akram Raja, a partner at the Lahore law firm, Zafar, Iqbal & Raja, says. "Throughout Pakistan's history we've been waiting for this institution to stand up for itself. This is the biggest judgment in our history."
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/fabe16d4-371...0779fd2ac.html