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LAHORE, PAKISTAN Lawyers v. Musharraf...
...easy being a dictator. After years spent carefully balancing the demands of his domestic backers and his friends in Washington, not to mention fighting one of the hottest fronts in the war on terror and warding off militants bent on assassinating him, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has spent the past week grappling with a new headache - angry lawyers...
...Last Friday, Musharraf suspended Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry. Reportedly, Musharraf confronted Chaudhry with allegations of abuse of power and then asked him to retire. When Chaudhry refused, Musharraf declared him "non-functional" and referred the matter to the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC), a five-member body of judges who can probe the conduct of their peers. The government insists that the move is constitutional and justified. But critics of the government - whose ranks seem to swell by the day - say the government wanted to sideline Chaudhry, an abrasive if efficient judge appointed two years ago by Musharraf...
...lawyer and may be up to no good. When the chief justice refused to use an official car sent to take him to a Supreme Court hearing earlier this week and tried to walk to court instead, police forced him into a vehicle as supporters chanted, "Go Musharraf...
...heavy-handed tactics seem to be backfiring. Whatever his intention, Musharraf's move has become a lightning rod for opposition by moderate Pakistanis frustrated with the slow pace of democratic reform. "This impinges so directly on the independence of the judiciary," says Samina Ahmed, Islamabad-based project director for the International Crisis Group. "This is the type of issue that will change the way people look at the executive - the last few apologists for this regime. There's a certain amount of desperation...