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After the presidential elections in Pakistan:

A new threat to the war against terror



imageIslamabad-Pakistan: General Pervez Musharraf is planning again to attack the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Judge Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, with the active support of Benazir Bhutto and with the covert support of the USA. High level meetings have been going on in Islamabad for the last two days to chalk out a new strategy against Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who is fast becoming a real threat to the fragile Musharraf-Benazir agreement, by puncturing the highly publicized presidential ordinance through which PPP leadership got amnesty from corruption cases. A top government official claims that the chief justice is also becoming a threat against the war on terror because he provided relief to many pro-al Qaeda and pro-Taliban elements who were in the custody of intelligence agencies without any formal charges.

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A top government official claims that the chief justice is also becoming a threat against the war on terror because he provided relief to many pro-al Qaeda and pro-Taliban elements who were in the custody of intelligence agencies without any formal charges. Prominent among them was Naeem Noor Khan, an alleged Al Qaeda computer expert, arrested a long time ago. But when the chief justice asked the Interior Ministry to produce any evidence against him in the court, nothing was produced and the chief justice ordered him released. Some recent suo moto actions of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry have also spread waves of fear and disturbance in top power circles of Islamabad, and these circles have advised General Pervez Musharraf to take some precautionary measures against any expected judicial offence from the Supreme Court. Reliable sources have confided that some powerful people, including Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, are not happy over the suo moto [on his own motion] actions of the Chief Justice against Islamabad


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Hamid Mir -- Bio and Archives

Hamid Mir is the Executive Editor of Geo TV in Islamabad and he has also interviewed Osama bin Laden, Tony Blair, Condoleezza Rice, General Pervaiz Musharraf, Hamid Karzai, L K Advani and other international leaders.


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