Pakistan's top judge, whose suspension by the country's military leader has sparked a political crisis, urged lawyers to continue their fight to uphold the independence of the judiciary.Lawyers and opposition figures have staged protests across the country maintaining that President Gen. Pervez Musharraf suspended the independent-minded judge to avert judicial challenges to upcoming elections.
"It is my request to you that you should forge unity among your ranks. This is your responsibility to strive for the supremacy and rule of law," Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry said Saturday night from the city of Gujrat.
Chaudhry's attorney, Munir A. Malik, said a "court of masses" had delivered a verdict in favor of the chief justice and said he hoped a panel of judges hearing charges would also find him innocent.
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