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India-Pakistan |
Iftikhar refuses to step down |
2007-03-11 |
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry declined to resign on Saturday – a day after he was suspended for “misuse of authority” – and showed intent to challenge a presidential reference against him. “I will never resign voluntarily ... I have done nothing wrong,” Chaudhry told Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Munir A Malik, who called the chief justice over the telephone in front of reporters. Malik assured the chief justice of lawyers’ moral and legal support, and advised him not to give in to pressure. Malik asked Chaudhry for permission to switch on his cell phone’s loudspeaker, so that the media could listen to their conversation, but the chief justice refused, saying, “Just deliver my message to the media”. Malik claimed that the chief justice was not free to move, and the government was pressing Chaudhry to resign. Later, media and bar representatives waited for two hours in front of Chaudhry’s house, but were not allowed to meet him. |
Posted by:Fred |
#4 According to them, the abrupt and uncouth action of Musharraf evident from the manner in which he had the Chief Justic suspended and placed under house arrest was a panic action. This panic action was triggered off by Justice Chaudhury's plans to expand his on-going enquiries into public complaints of a large number of missing persons to cover the alleged payments by the US' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to the ISI and its officers. They say that the Chief Justice wanted to see whether there was any link between these payments and the large number of complaints of missing persons. |
Posted by: John Frum 2007-03-11 12:53 |
#3 He sure looks blasted. |
Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-03-11 12:39 |
#2 Look at him - he's baked! |
Posted by: Raj 2007-03-11 09:39 |
#1 What's the word? Thunderbird! How's it sold? Good and cold. What's the jive? Bird's alive! What's the price? Thirty twice. |
Posted by: Shipman 2007-03-11 00:18 |