White Band for Justice

I protest against the abominable treatment of Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry by the general-president!

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Neried said…
standing by ya!
11:51 pm
Anonymous said…
what happened to him?
12:35 pm
mehmal said…
Thanks Neried.

@ Nandini
Well the Chief Justice was forcefully made 'dysfunctional' by President General Pervez Musharraf, hence the White Band. Thankfully he has been reinstated, but that's because President Mushy didn't want to create more trouble for himself.
3:14 pm
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