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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Nov. 21, 2007

The Lawyers of Pakistan

Forum Column - By John A. Hall - The attorneys jailed during Pakistani President Pervez Musharaff's crackdown are the colleagues of American lawyers. They deserve to be treated as such.

FORUM COLUMN

By John A. Hall

      On Nov. 3, Pakistan's military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, imposed a state of emergency in Pakistan. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has characterized this as "a step back to dictatorship," and it is hard to interpret these events otherwise. Musharraf - who seized power in a 1999 military coup - has fired the justices of the Supreme Court and replaced them with his cronies, scr...

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