Lawyers take to the streets again this week, as pressure builds on the government to restore deposed judges. A 'long march' will start on Tuesday in Multan; ex-servicemen and the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) -- which recently withdrew from the Pakistan Peoples' Party-led coalition government -- will join the suits on the road.
Protesters will be united in opposition to President Pervez Musharraf, whose dismissal of former Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry in March 2007 triggered a crisis of legitimacy that has yet to be resolved. A judiciary that had showed signs of independence, and had threatened to jeopardise Musharraf re-election plans, was removed, with the imposition of emergency rule in November.
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