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Musharraf's term to accept judges
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 04 - 05 - 2008

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf may accept the reinstatement of judges he sacked if the country's new government amends the constitution instead of simply passing a parliamentary resolution, a spokesman for his political party said Saturday.
Although the presidency has avoided comment on the latest move, Tariq Azim, the spokesman for Musharraf's Pakistan Muslim League-Q party, said the president “may accept the restoration of judges if the government amends the constitution.”
However, Azim insisted that the judges could not be sent back to courts by the parliament's simply approving a resolution.
He provided no further details, and said the president was still consulting experts. His comments came a day after former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif – whose party is a main partner in the coalition government – told reporters that the ruling party chief, Asif Ali Zardari, had agreed to restore the judges.
Musharraf purged the judiciary of some 60 judges when he imposed a state of emergency in November to avoid any legal challenges to his re-election as president.
But the action angered many Pakistanis, who rejected Musharraf's allies in the Feb. 18 elections, paving the way for the formation of a coalition government, which on Friday set May 12 as the date to restore judges.
The government's decision further threatened the US -backed president's already diminished grip on power.
Restoring the judges has been a top priority for the two main parties in Pakistan's month-old government, but disputes over how to bring the judges back has threatened to break up the ruling coalition.
After marathon talks in Dubai this week, coalition officials finally came to a deal.
“I want to inform the entire nation that on Monday, May 12 all the sacked judges will be restored,” Nawaz Sharif, head of the second-biggest party in the coalition, said at a Friday news conference in Lahore.
Farahnaz Ispahani, a spokeswoman for Zardari's Pakistan People's Party, the largest party in the coalition, confirmed the plan.
Bringing the justices back bodes ill for the unpopular president, who seized power from Sharif in a 1999 military coup.
The judges could revisit Musharraf's disputed re-election. Even if they don't, some argue the humiliation of the judges returning would prompt Musharraf to resign.
Khawaja Asif, a key Sharif aide. said Musharraf also risks impeachment.
Zardari, who has been leading the party of his wife Benazir Bhutto since she was assassinated on Dec. 27, told Pakistani Aaj news channel late Friday that he was maintaining a distance from Musharraf. – With agencies __


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