Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharaf suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry on charges of abusing his office - only to face massive protests. In two days of clashes and gunbattles, forty people were killed. Today, about three-thousand lawyers, opposition activists, and civil rights campaigners were back on the streets of Lahore.
Turmoil in Pakistan
Credits
Guests:
- Tariq Azim Khan - Information Minister, Pakistan
- Samina Ahmed - South Asia Project Director, International Crisis Group
- Ahmed Rashid - Pakistani journalist
- Paula Newberg - Georgetown University