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PPP faces revolt over judges issue
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) that heads the country's ruling coalition could face a revolt on the issue of restoring the judges sacked after an emergency was declared last year.
- IANS
- Published: 00:05 June 8, 2008
Islamabad: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) that heads the country's ruling coalition could face a revolt on the issue of restoring the judges sacked after an emergency was declared last year.
More than 100 of its MPs are threatening to join a protest march lawyers have planned for tomorrow to demand immediate reinstatement of the judges.
"Over 80 per cent of my colleagues are eager to join the long march if the party leadership does not stop them officially," The News yesterday quoted a PPP member of the National Assembly as saying.
"We feel threatened by the incumbent judiciary and have no faith in them," he added.
President Pervez Musharraf had sacked chief justice Ifthikar Mohammad Chaudhry and the entire Supreme Court bench, as also many High Court judges, as they refused to take a fresh oath after he declared an emergency on November 3, 2007.
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