The article explores how Pakistan’s judiciary expanded its power under Musharraf, with lawyers and judges resisting regime control through public interest litigation.
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Berkman (2010), “The Pakistani Lawyers’ Movement and the Popular Currency of Judicial Power”
This article explores how Pakistan’s lawyer-led movement challenged dictatorship and reshaped judicial power and political engagement.
Dixon and Isaacharoff (2016), “Living to Fight Another Day: Judicial Deferral in Defense of Democracy”
Lawyers play a crucial role in upholding judicial independence, as shown in Pakistan’s 2007 movement, where their collective action helped restore a removed chief justice and reinforced the judiciary’s power against executive overreach.
“Ousted Chief Justice in Pakistan Urges Defiance,” David Rohde and Jane Perlez
Lawyers in Pakistan continued protesting, with ousted Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry urging them to defy de facto martial law imposed by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Chaudhry, under arrest, called for the restoration …