ISLAMABAD, OCT 1 (AP): Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered three top police and municipal officials suspended Monday over a crackdown that injured dozens of journalists and lawyers protesting President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's re-election bid, witnesses said.
Judges told a government official to suspend Islamabad's city and district police chiefs, as well as the deputy head of the city administration, said Mazher Abbas, secretary general of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, who was present during the proceedings.
Pakistan's outspoken chief justice Monday condemned a police crackdown on protests against President Pervez Musharraf as he opened a special hearing into the violence, reports AFP.
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who has become a thorn in the government's side since Musharraf tried to sack him in March, ordered police and administrative officials to come to the Supreme Court Monday to explain the action.
Supreme Court orders officials suspended over Pak crackdown
FE Team | Published: October 02, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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