Wampum

This year what passes for parliamentary elections are likely to be held by the Punjabi State. General Pervez Musharraf removed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry on Friday. No cause was given.

It is possible that the motive is to suppress the political independence of the judiciary, unfortunately there is another possibility -- cooking the Con Law books and keeping General Musharraf in power after 2007, and/or freezing all judicial inquiry into ministerial-level corruption until after the elections.

Reports are that more than twenty lawyers who met outside the Supreme Court building in Islamabad were injured. No fatalities have been reported.