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...police and the military used tear gas to suppress a protest by thousands of lawyers in Pakistan's largest cities, opposition leader Benazir Bhutto spoke to TIME about the imposition of martial law by President Pervez Musharraf. She said that Musharraf was falling under the sway of the more radical parts of his Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML-Q) party. Still, she said she was not shutting the door on negotiations with Musharraf. Bhutto, who leads the huge People's Party, has not asked her millions of fervent followers to come out into the streets. During the interview, she evinced...
TIME: What do you make of Musharraf's declaration of emergency? BENAZIR BHUTTO: Actually, we call it martial law. The constitution has been suspended and while Musharraf is terming it an emergency for international consumption, he has actually in his capacity of Chief of Army Staff suspended the constitution of Pakistan and promulgated a new provisional order. The result of this is that he has stopped democracy in its tracks. And he has given an extended life to his ruling PML-Q party. I may mention that the PML-Q has some moderate elements in it, but the core strength...
...power-sharing deal with popular former prime minister, whose return to Pakistan from exile last week was greeted by a massive terror attack. And the court appears to be in no mood to submit to Musharraf, despite explicit threats from his government that ruling against him would bring martial...
...constitution and continue to govern as head of the military. While such a move would keep Musharraf in charge, it would effectively derail plans to create a more popular, civilian-based government in Pakistan to fight extremism. And so acute has opposition to Musharraf's rule become that declaring martial law raises the danger that the combination of the tribal insurgency and related militancy in the cities, as well as anti-Musharraf agitation by the middle class (such as the recent lawyers' protests that forced Musharraf to back down from firing chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry), will become a perfect storm...
...threat of martial law puts the Supreme Court in a quandary. A public fed up with years of judges ruling to please those in power has welcomed recent decisions that have reestablished the primacy of the constitution over the whims of the executive branch. But upholding the constitution in this case risks provoking its suspension by the military man who also serves as president. "It's a tricky situation," admits Rabbani. "Musharraf's disqualifications [to run for president under the constitution] are so patent that to sidestep them would be difficult for the courts. But the risks of ruling against...