In a move only someone like his friend, George W. Bush would love, Pakistan's President/General Musharraf suspended the nation's Chief Justice and has turned off all electricity and plumbing to his residence and has prevented him from leaving or communicating with the outside world.
In the meantime, lawyers all over the country are marching in protest, boycotting the courts. In Lahore, police beat back hundreds of lawyers, dressed in black suits, with wooden batons, injuring a number of the lawyers. Rumors have circulated that many lawyers were smashed in the head and, of course, suffered no ill effects at all, except for some blood.
Pakistani news agencies took the government line and report that the marches were minor annoyances and that courts were not closed, in spite of what was apparent to foreign journalists.
Posted by Bill at March 12, 2007 04:20 PM
Have you ever noticed that when someone says "I'm going to put an end to politics" he means he's going to set up shop as a dictator?
Posted by: Joel at March 13, 2007 02:25 AMHey, Musharraf is a good dictator. He's on our side. The US govt would never set up a bad dictator, right? ... Anyway, Bush must be green with envy. If only he hadn't shirked military service, he could be a president general too, and he wouldn't have to settle for canning a handful of US attys.
Posted by: Kyle at March 14, 2007 03:06 AMWe're getting closer to 'back to the future II'.
Posted by: Anji at March 16, 2007 02:52 AM