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Deposed top judge to tour country

Deposed top judge who became a focus for opposition to President Pervez Musharraf plans to tour the country to meet lawyers but will not organise protests to press for his reinstatement.

  • Reuters
  • Published: 00:17 March 27, 2008
  • Gulf News

Islamabad: Deposed top judge who became a focus for opposition to President Pervez Musharraf plans to tour the country to meet lawyers but will not organise protests to press for his reinstatement, his lawyers said.

Former Supreme Court chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and nine colleagues were freed from nearly five months of house arrest on Monday on the orders of new prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

Leaders of the two ruling parties, Benazir Bhutto's widower Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League-N, have promised to reinstate Chaudhry and his colleagues through a parliamentary resolution within 30 days of forming a government.

But that could trigger a show-down between the new government and the president.

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