Pakistan&#39;s top judge hits back at Musharraf
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Pakistan&#39;s top judge launched a blistering attack on the government of President Pervez Musharraf Tuesday for trying to sack him and for allegedly detaining him and his family.
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ABBOTABAD, PAKISTAN -- Tens of thousands of demonstrators joined the biggest rally yet against the president's suspension of Pakistan's chief justice, giving the jurist a joyous reception yesterday before he spoke to supporters in an opposition stronghold. Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry's convoy defied a new two-month ban on gatherings of more than five people. But police did not stop the judge's ...
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President Gen. Pervez Musharraf backed out of a pledge to step down as army chief, slamming the door Wednesday on Pakistan&#39;s slow progress toward democracy five years after his bloodless coup.
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Pakistan&#39;s Supreme Court Friday reinstated the country&#39;s chief justice and quashed misconduct charges filed against him by President Pervez Musharraf, in a major blow for the military ruler.
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Pakistan's top judge got a boost Monday when the Supreme Court allowed him to contest his suspension by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in a case that has fueled widespread protests of the government.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan&#39;s President Gen. Pervez Musharraf yesterday accused his political opponents of &quot;threatening&quot; democracy as he explained to the nation his decision to renege on a promise to step down as army chief by the end of 2004.
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Islamists chanting slogans against Pakistan's military leader rallied outside the Supreme Court on Friday as judges heard petitions challenging President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's right to run for re-election.
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Thousands of lawyers, journalists and opposition activists staged a sit-in protest in the Pakistani city of Lahore, demanding President Gen. Pervez Musharraf resign for suspending a popular Supreme Court judge and enacting restrictions on the media.
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A Pakistani judge is seriously hurt and three policemen killed in a bombing in the city of Multan, police say.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf backed out of a pledge to step down as army chief, slamming the door yesterday on this key Washington ally's slow progress toward democracy five years after his bloodless coup.
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Pakistan's Supreme Court reinstated Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry on Friday, in a blow for President Pervez Musharraf who suspended the country's top judge four months earlier.
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Opposition swelled on Tuesday to the government's move to sack Pakistan's top judge as a judicial council heard the case against him behind closed doors.
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Pakistani judges are to rule whether President Musharraf can stand for re-election while remaining army chief.
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Pakistan's ex-top judge makes a thinly disguised attack on President Musharraf, in a speech to supporters.
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ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan  - Tens of thousands of people turned out to greet Pakistan's suspended chief justice as he traveled to a northwestern town on Saturday to forge resistance to President Pervez Musharraf's attempt to sack him.
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Pakistan&#39;s suspended chief  justice traveled into the Pakistani heartland on Saturday to a  tumultuous welcome from opposition supporters now posing a  growing challenge to President Pervez Musharraf.
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Pakistan's suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry warned against centralized power in a thinly disguised criticism of President Pervez Musharraf, without ever mentioning him by name.