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| Subject: ANCAPS to Pakistan's opposition parties: Impeach Musharraf Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:39 pm | |
| Clouds gather as 'sulky' Musharraf retreats to bunker
Despite US support, president is isolated in battle for power
... On Thursday hundreds of lawyers and civil society activists tried to storm the barricades outside the Islamabad house of the imprisoned former chief justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. Lawyers in suits, ties and gardening gloves ripped back coils of barbed wire, only to be confronted with a phalanx of policemen armed with teargas and water canon. "Go Musharraf, go!" chanted the crowd - a mantra that has haunted the president since his botched attempted to fire Chaudhry last March. Musharraf despises the judge even more than he does Sharif; in a recent interview he described him as "the scum of the earth".
By roping in a few smaller parties the two leaders could cobble the two-thirds majority necessary to impeach Musharraf. The end could come by March 8, the date by which election officials estimate the new parliament will first sit.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/23/pakistan |
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