Bar Association Appeals To Musharraf
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The New York City bar association yesterday appealed to Pakistan’s ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, to discontinue arrests against lawyers leading street protests.
Mr. Musharraf plunged the country into emergency rule last Saturday. One effect was to bring Pakistan’s courts to a standstill, with some judges being removed and others refusing to sit.
“Only when you lift emergency rule and reinstate the Constitution will Pakistan have the chance to recover its reputation as a great country,” the bar association’s president, Barry Kamins, wrote yesterday in a letter sent to Mr. Musharraf, care of the country’s Washington embassy.
The bar association has extended honorary membership on Pakistan’s ousted chief justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who is under house arrest, after emerging as one of the country’s most significant opposition figures.
“The lawyers should convey my message to the people to rise up and restore the Constitution,” the chief justice said by telephone this week, the New York Times reported.