Pakistan to reinstate chief justice

Mar. 16, 2009
Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani announced Monday that all judges sacked by the previous president, including Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, would be reinstated.
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