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Authorities intensify security
The government has ordered police and other security agencies to ensure peace and order at all cost in view of lawyers' threat to intensify their movement for reinstatement of deposed judges.
- By Shahid Hussain, Correspondent
- Published: 00:41 May 14, 2008
Islamabad: The government has ordered police and other security agencies to ensure peace and order at all cost in view of lawyers' threat to intensify their movement for reinstatement of deposed judges.
The directive has been issued by the prime minister's adviser on interior Rehman Malek following the decision of the Pakistan Muslim League-N to pull out of the federal cabinet, officials said.
Supreme Court bar president Aitzaz Ahsan has said a representative convention of lawyers from all over the country to be held in Lahore, capital of Punjab province, on May 17 would determine the future course of action.
Public pledge
Following the public pledge made by the top leadership of the Pakistan Peoples Party and the PML-N on March 9 to reinstate the judges in a month after the formation of the government, the bar associations had toned down their campaign.
That deadline expired without result and so did the new May 12 date for reinstatement announced by PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif after talks with PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari in Dubai.
President Pervez Musharraf had sacked the judges after he declared a state of emergency in November last year and promulgated a Provisional Constitutional Order to which he wanted the superior judiciary to declare allegiance. He sacked the judges who refused to pledge allegiance to the PCO including his chief rival and then chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. Musharraf's attempt to remove Chaudhry in March last year had backfired and he was reinstated in July.
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