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Suspension of Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry
Suspension of the Chief Justice of Pakistan by the President / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was made a "non-functional Chief Justice" on 9 March 2007. In so acting, President Pervez Musharraf invoked two main clauses of the Constitution of Pakistan. The suspension evoked a nationwide popular mass protest movement led by lawyers, known as the Lawyers' Movement and eventually culminated with the Pakistan Long March.
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