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Pakistani police and security services detained hundreds of lawyers, rights activists and opposition figures Saturday and Sunday in a clampdown following President Pervez Musharraf's Saturday proclamation of emergency rule . Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said Sunday that up...

New Pakistan Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar Sunday effectively set aside dismissed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry's last-ditch attempt to block President Pervez Musharraf's Saturday emergency declaration and Provisional Constitution Order (PCO) , saying that the Supreme Court...

Order, Supreme Court of Pakistan, November 3, 2007 [order by an 8-member Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry declaring invalid President Pervez Musharraf's Provisional Constitution Order (PCO) and directing civic and military officials not to take...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Faisal Naseem Chaudhry, an advocate of the Lahore High Court in Lahore, Pakistan, says that the greatest danger to law and the constitution in Pakistan in the wake of General Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule...

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says General Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency in Pakistan has created a situation of lawlessness in the country that may actually prompt another military coup... On November 3, Pakistan...

Basil Nabi Malik : "An 8 member bench of the Supreme Court has held as illegal and unconstitutional the Proclamation of Emergency and the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) issued today...

Provisional Constitution Order No. 1 (PCO), Pakistan Chief of the Army Staff General Pervez Musharraf, November 3, 2007 [suspending certain fundamental rights under a declaration of emergency and providing that "the Supreme Court or a High Court and any other...

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf defended his decision to suspend the country's constitution and impose emergency rule in a nationwide radio and television address delivered late Saturday local...

Proclamation of Emergency, General Pervez Musharraf, November 3, 2007 . Read the full text of the proclamation . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

US State Department officials Saturday expressed concern and skepticism about Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's decision to declare emergency rule in Pakistan and suspend the country's constitution in a move largely designed to thwart an increasingly activist Pakistani...