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Pakistan high court chief justice Chaudhry resumes post

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry on Sunday resumed his former position as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Chaudhry was removed from the post by then-president Pervez Musharraf following Musharraf's November 2007 declaration of emergency law. Chaudhry began his new term by establishing several judicial panels for the court, but did not attend an unofficial celebration of his reinstatement at the supreme court building. Supporters at the celebration and at Chaudhry's home cheered his return, saying that it renewed hopes of having an independent judiciary in the country. Chaudhry replaces Abdul Hameed Dogar as Pakistan's chief justice, and both UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay and members of the Pakistan lawyers' movement have already praised his reinstatement. Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari last week announced that Chaudhry's reinstatement was imminent and ordered government officials to release anyone arrested during a second so-called "long march" held in part to call for Chaudhry's return. Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had long actively campaigned for Chaudhry's reinstatement, and Chaudhry maintained that he was still chief justice under the Pakistani constitution even after his ouster.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on March 22, 2009 (boomark / email).