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Pakistan president weighing deal on judges to stop latest protests: report

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and his Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Saturday were considering offering a compromise deal to opposition factions - including members of the lawyers' movement - currently engaged in crippling anti-government protests and a "long march" on Islamabad, according to local media reports. Under the terms of the deal, the government would fully reinstate the as-yet-unrestored judges ousted in November 2007 by then-president Pervez Musharraf and would file an appeal of a recent Supreme Court ruling that barred former prime minister Nawaz Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and his brother from holding elected office based on prior criminal convictions arising out of the 1999 military coup that overthrew him. The current long march, which began amid preemptive arrests and government violence against opposition members, is similar to last year's lawyers' demonstrations against the Musharraf regime. Continuing turmoil over the country's judiciary split the PML-N and Zardari's PPP, formerly coalition partners. Sharif and the PML-N have urged the restoration of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, removed after then-president Musharraf declared emergency rule. Chaudhry, supported by many members of Pakistan's bar, insists he is still chief justice under the Pakistani constitution.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on March 14, 2009 (boomark / email).