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Lawyers across Pakistan burst into tears and cries of jubilation today, as Pakistan's Supreme Court restored the country's Chief Justice, Muhamed Iftikhar Chaudhry, whose sacking by embattled Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf last March sparked national protests. "They have given new life to the nation. For the first time in [my] life I have saluted the judges," says Supreme Court lawyer and activist Ali Ahmed Kurd, a Chaudhry supporter. "It proved that Pakistan has not yet gone dry." What it augurs for Pakistan's President may be something else...
...Laden and the Taliban. But there are growing doubts about how long Musharraf can hold on to power. Al-Qaeda's leadership has regrouped in Pakistan's tribal areas, while the country's middle class has taken to the streets to protest Musharraf's decision to suspend Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. (A suicide attack during a pro-Chaudhry rally on July 17 killed more than a dozen.) On July 10 Musharraf ordered the army into Islamabad's Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, to arrest Islamic extremists who had holed up there for months. Islamic radicals have vowed revenge...
...Road to Democracy? Re "Pakistan's Reluctant Hero" [June 25-July 2]: The tussle between suspended Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and President Pervez Musharraf seems to augur well for the country's pro-democracy movement. At least the sacked Chief Justice has been able to convince the democracy lovers that there is light at the end of the tunnel, that it's not impossible to end the rule of dictators backed by men in military uniform. Now it's time for other pro-democracy leaders to get under one umbrella and offer a progressive vision...
...Survival is also an issue for Musharraf, who has been under siege, both at home and abroad, over his inability to tackle al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, his stalling over restoring full democracy to Pakistan, and his drawn-out dispute with the popular Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. Now his religious and political opponents are using the Red Mosque siege as fresh ammunition against him. "Our blood," Ghazi said, "will be the first step toward Islamic revolution." Most Pakistanis pray he will be proved wrong...
Pakistan's President, General Pervez Musharraf, is stumbling from crisis to crisis. His standoff with the Chief Justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, has galvanized the middle class against his regime. Doubts are growing about his ability to root out al-Qaeda and Taliban militants on Pakistani soil, in the West as well as at home. (On June 4, Pakistan's Interior Ministry issued a report saying the military was losing the fight against extremists.) And, perhaps most dangerously for him, Musharraf faces growing opposition from conservative Pakistanis unhappy with the country's pace of Islamization and his alliance with U.S. President George...