Pakistan Chief Justice to be left in the cold

Bangladesh News.Net
Friday 5th September, 2008

In Pakistan, the ruling party has decided in principle not to restore the deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and his fellow judges.

the Pakistan People's Party has informed Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani of the decision.

Gilani had declared in the Senate that the deposed judges would be restored and the 17th amendment to the constitution would be repealed.

The top leadership of the PPP has formally informed Gilani that Chaudhry and some other judges would not be restored and he should stop promising their restoration publicly.

Some 60 judges were sacked Nov 3rd last year when then-president Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency.

The PPP and its former coalition partner Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz promised in March that the judges would be restored.

Attorney General Latif Khosa has told the media that besides Chaudhry, other senior Supreme Court judges, if they wanted to be restored, would have to work under Chief Justice Dogar who, he said, was the constitutional chief justice of the country.

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