More Judges Resign in Pakistan

Five more Pakistani judges resigned yesterday and hundreds of lawyers demonstrated against President General Pervez Musharraf’s controversial removal of the country’s chief justice, deepening the political mess now facing the military leader, reports The Independent.

“Musharraf suspended Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry on March 9 over unspecified allegations that he had abused his authority and now faces a growing current of public resentment over the army’s dominant role in Pakistan.

“Musharraf’s move has sparked a nationwide lawyers’ strike and angry protests by lawyers and opposition activists – drawing a forceful police response and hundreds of arrests.

” ‘I have waited a few days before addressing you, in the hope something will be done to remedy the harm done to the judicial organ of the state. It seems I have waited in vain,’ Lahore High Court Judge Jawad S. Khawaja said in a resignation letter sent to Musharraf. It was read to the Associated Press by Khawaja’s wife.”

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