Protesters chant slogans against Pervez Musharraf at a rally demanding reinstatement of the deposed chief justice. Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudry claims he is still the legal head of the Supreme Court and says the election defeat of President Pervez Musharraf's allies, is the end of "one-man rule."
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A senior Pakistani lawyer says his colleagues will-try to challenge the legitimacy of President Musharraf's re-election when Mr. Musharraf lifts the country's state-of-emergency.
Abrar Hasan, a senior lawyer at Pakistan's Supreme Court, said in Hong-Kong on Thursday that if President Musharraf ends the state of emergency as expected on Saturday and the constitution is restored, the country's lawyers are planning to challenge his legitimacy.
In a decision designed to legitimize the election of the Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the country’s Supreme Court today dismissed a final legal complaint challenging his right to be re-elected.
The legal challenges in the Supreme Court to General Musharraf’s re-election in October by the national parliament and four provincial assemblies revolved around the question of whether he could be both leader of the army and president.
