Pakistan - Protests Over Suspended Chief Justice - 41 Left Dead
(23 Jun 2007) 527252 AP TELEVISION Okara - 23 June 2007 +++QUALITY AS INCOMING+++ 1. Close up, suspended Chief Justice, Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry receives bar life membership certificate, framed 2. Chaudhry on a stage UPSOUND: applause 10:18:46 525463 AP TELEVISION Lahore - 7 June 2007 3. Wide top shot of protest against suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry on 9 March 4. Lawyers chanting slogans against Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf 5. Protesters burning effigy of Musharraf 6. Riot police watching protest 10:18:58 522673 AP TELEVISION Karachi - 14 May 2007 ++NIGHTSHOTS++ 7. Police firing tear gas in the Lyari area in Karachi UPSOUND: gunshots 8. Protesters running away from tear gas STORYLINE Pakistan's suspended chief justice was cheered by thousands of supporters as he travelled through eastern Pakistan on Saturday 23rd June ahead of another rally demanding an end to the government of President General Pervez Musharraf. In the town of Okara, Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry's motorcade was greeted with rose petals and dancing in the street. Chaudhry was suspended by President General Pervez Musharraf on 9 March, 2007, accused of abusing his office to get a prized job for his son. It led to nationwide protests, becoming the deepest political crisis of the Musharraf presidency. Chaudhry denies the charges and has been fighting a legal battle to be reinstated, addressing rallies across the country and drawing the support of tens of thousands of people. Most of Pakistan's political parties opposing Musharraf's military rule have also joined Chaudhry's rallies. On 7th June thousands of protesters took to the streets of Lahore in eastern Pakistan, the latest in a series of demonstrations against President General Pervez Musharraf's ouster of the country's top judge. The crowd of demonstrators, which included hundreds of lawyers backed by opposition political party supporters, was estimated at around 7-thousand by observers. The protesters, carrying banners and flags, chanted "Go Musharraf, Go!" Earlier in May police were forced to use tear gas to dampen down the protest after a general strike was observed in Karachi as well as Lahore and other major Pakistani cities to voice dissatisfaction over the way the violence was being handled and Musharraf's suspension of the Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
