The Lawyers' Resistance to Musharraf

“When the Supreme Court started acting like an
independent institution for the first time in 60 years,
they came down very hard,” he said. “In the past,
the Supreme Court had always connived with the
establishment and the military.”

Athar Minallah, a Pakistani lawyer, referring to the recent independence of the court and to the rising anger against military rule within the legal community in the country. Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the deposed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in Pakistan, has rallied lawyers to defy the state of emergency declared by Musharraf on November 3.