Lawyers take to the streets as top judge is forced to stand down
Lawyers in Pakistan have clashed with police over a decision by the country’s president to sack the country’s top judge. In what has been widely interpreted as an attack on judicial independence, Pakistan’s president General Pervez Musharraf made Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry ‘non-functional’ on 9 March. Summoned to Army House, Musharraf’s residence in […]