SMOKERS’ CORNER: REVOLUTION TO NOWHERE?

In 2007, the so-called ‘Lawyers’ Movement’ in Pakistan mobilised immense pressure against then military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf to reinstate Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, whom Musharraf had arbitrarily dismissed. Backed by opposition parties, these protests catalysed a somewhat ‘fair’ 2008 general election, which brought the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) to power, closely followed by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). Leveraging their combined parliamentary majority, the two major...

By [email protected] (Nadeem F. Paracha)