Instead of falling down and rolling over before Pakistan's leader, Pervez Musharraf, the Supreme Court of Pakistan stood up for the rule of law and re-instated Iftikar Chaudhry as Chief Justice of the court. Chaudhry had been suspended by Musharraf because Chaudhry resisted allowing Musharraf to remain both president and army chief in violation of the Pakistan constitution. See my post on March 21, 2007,and my post on May 5, 2007.
This re-instatement is a victory for all of Pakistan's lawyers who took Chaudhry's cause to the streets in all the major cities of Pakistan. Musharraf tried to arrest many, had the state police break into lawyers' offices, and otherwise harassed the demonstrators.
But Musharraf lost his unconstitutional argument today, and now the Supreme Court is once again being led by Justice Chaudhry. The rule of law has won out.
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