May 2, 2008 Pakistan's Sacked
Judges to be Restored May 12 By Muhammad Najeeb
Lahore
Pakistan's sacked judges will be restored May 12 through a
parliamentary resolution, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)
leader Nawaz Sharif announced here Friday, a day after concluding
talks with ruling coalition partner Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in
Dubai.
Addressing a meeting of his party's Central Working Committee,
Sharif said: "The deposed judges will be restored on May 12, through
a resolution, to the Nov 2 position."
He said a five-member committee comprising Aitezaz Ahsan, Khawaja
Haris, Fakhruddin G. Ibrahim, Hafeez Pirzada and Mian Raza Rabbani
will give final shape to the draft resolution in this regard.
Sharif said during his Dubai parleys, he had told PPP co-chairman
Asif Ali Zardari that the PML-N will not be part of the government
if the sacked judges are not restored.
He said that Zardari had agreed and the judges would be restored May
12.
Earlier, both parties had decided to restore the superior court
judges who were sacked by President Pervez Musharraf Nov 3 last year
when he declared emergency.
Sharif said if the PPP delayed restoring the judges beyond May 12,
his party would quit the cabinet but continue to support the
government.
Referring to President Musharraf, Sharif said that more than 60
judges were sacked just on one person's will as they were hearing
his case.
A PML-N leader, who attended the meeting, told IANS that Sharif was
very clear in stressing that his party would not compromise on
further delay in restoring the judges.
Sharif told parliamentarians of his party that after the judges are
restored, the PML-N would aim for the removal of President
Musharraf, who dismissed Sharif's government in October 1999,
grabbed the power and later sent him into exile to Saudi Arabia.
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