Pakistan's top Judge urges revolt


	Pakistan's top Judge urges revolt

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11-6-2007 7:26 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e31f2432-d97f-43e1-b3f1-8e597b31aaca/F21EE56B-1766-46C6-A9B5-A2E563BD7C41/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071106\Pakistan_20071106.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1" href="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071106\Pakistan_20071106.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mail.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071106\Pakistan_20071106.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1"><DIV class="author">By STEPHEN GRAHAM    </DIV><A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self"><IMG width="180" height="115" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.vimg.net/darwin/cms/images/APNews/Top Headlines/20071106/Pakistan_20071106_ce6ea3e8-a1bd-4a51-94e0-5826f7bee174_180x210.jpg" class="thumbnail3" /></A><P>Pakistan's deposed chief justice called on lawyers Tuesday to revolt against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's imposition of emergency rule and a crackdown on the opposition that has left thousands under arrest.</P><P>The government considered a delay in parliamentary elections despite Western demands they be held on schedule in January to bring democracy to a nuclear-armed country dogged by political uncertainty and rising Islamic militancy.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071106\Pakistan_20071106.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1">Musharraf says emergency powers are needed so the government can better fight Islamic extremists, his crackdown has been aimed at lawyers and liberal political activists opposing his rule</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071106\Pakistan_20071106.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1">"Go to every corner of Pakistan and give the message that this is the time to sacrifice," Chaudhry said over loudspeakers</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071106\Pakistan_20071106.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1">Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, a figurehead for the resistance, has been under house arrest since Saturday night. But he managed to address hundreds of lawyers using a cell phone from his Islamabad residence</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F21EE56B-1766-46C6-A9B5-A2E563BD7C41/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>