Lawyers in anti-Musharraf protest

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Source: al Jazeera

Thousands of Pakistani lawyers have burned in effigy President Pervez Musharraf during nationwide protests to press for the release of the country's sacked chief justice.

In Islamabad, hundreds of attorneys in black suits torched a small cloth dummy of Musharraf outside Chaudhry's residence on Thursday and chanted "Death to Musharraf" and other slogans.

Separately around 3,000 lawyers, joined by members of former cricketer Imran Khan's opposition political party, also burned a dummy of the president in the eastern city of Lahore.

At least 4,000 protesters shouted "Go Musharraf, go" in the southern city of Karachi and there were protests in the central Pakistani city of Multan and the northwestern city of Peshawar.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/893F5B59-2159-4023-A778-AFB9A2057505.htm

[fenriswolf]

1. this is why i laughed at everyone

who thought it was bad that edwards had the lawyers backing him. We may find some of the scum because they feed off of us like leeches. But alot understand the law better then any of us and alot of them stand up for what they believe in. I believe that if worst comes to worst we would have alot of our own lawyers in the streets fighting along side us.

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2. Some lawyers make money defending us, and some make money screwing us.

So it all depends.

[Supersedeas]

3. nothing to see here -- Condi has her man in Pakistan, and that's all 'Merica needs to know