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Turmoil in Pakistan
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.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readPakistan’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.
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Christian Bordal
Managing Producer, Greater LA
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Katie Cooper
Producer, 'One year Later'
Tariq Azim Khan
Information Minister, Pakistan
Samina Ahmed
South Asia Project Director, International Crisis Group
Ahmed Rashid
Pakistani journalist
The full episode
2 of 3Turmoil in Pakistan- 1:43Bush Addresses Iraq and Immigration in Press Conference
- 7:29Turmoil in PakistanYou’re reading this
- 42:09War records go online