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| Benazir Bhutto demands reinstatement of Chief Justice | | |
Islamabad, Mar 19: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has asked President Pervez Musharraf to immediately reverse his decision to suspend the Chief Justice as he has "lost credibility" with the people and was in "deep trouble".
Bhutto also asked her Pakistan Peoples Party leaders to distance themselves from the Islaimist alliance Muthahida Majlis Amal (MMA) while protesting the suspension of Justice Iftikar Muhammad Chaudhury.
Musharraf was in deep trouble, Bhutto, who is currently in the US, was quoted as saying by the Daily Times.
People were angry over the treatment of the chief justice of Pakistan, she said.
Bhutto asked Musharraf to reverse his decision immediately as he has lost credibility with the people, who are tired of his dictatorship.
The newspaper also said that she has instructed her partymen to distance themselves from MMA leaders, who too were agitating against Musharraf's decision to suspend Chaudhry.
Currently lawyers and activists of different political parties including MMA have been holding protests with agitating lawyers.
MMA leaders including its President Qazi Hussain Ahmed, who also headed the Jamat-e-Islami, was actively leading the protests.
Bhutto, who held unsuccessful backchannel talks abroad with Musharraf emissaries to work out a political rapprochement, wants PPP to retain the image of being a moderate party.
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