Pakistani chief justice sacked by Musharraf to return

Mar. 15, 2009
Amid massive protests demanding that Pakistan's government reinstate judges sacked by former President Pervez Musharraf, the seat of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will be restored, a spokesman for the prime minister said early Monday.
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