Lawyers in Pakistan continue their protests
This week in the law, one of the ongoing stories we have followed here at The Legal Broadcast Network is the turmoil in Pakistan that was precipitated by the arrest and jailing of key judges and lawyers protesting the implementation of martial law and suppression of a free and independent judiciary.
You can link to our original story by clicking here. It's entitled " First kill all the lawyers, it is not an abstraction in Pakistan."
In todays Sunday New York Times a follow up article about the release this week of Aitzaz Ahsan, pictured above and the leader of the lawyers movement in Pakistan, discusses the continued protests and how the lawyers and judges in this nation continue to fight for the rule of law and an independent judiciary. Specifically they are battling for the release of Supreme Court Justice Ifikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who along with 8 other justices was "fired" by the government and jailed under house arrest. The fear was that an independent judiciary would rule on the illegality of elections and throw the nation into turmoil.
LBN doesn't have a political stake in this fight other then to feel that any government that attempts to stay in power by the intimidation or suppression of an independent judiciary is ultimately doomed to failure and anarchy. A free and independent judicial branch is a foundational principal of the United States and our support of the same in a country of the importance of Pakistan should be unconditional and unwavering.
The LBN Team
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