Tens of thousands of protesters from across Pakistan are pouring into the capital to press the new government to restore judges ousted under President Pervez Musharraf last year.
The rally is set to be one of the largest ever seen in Islamabad. Police are expecing a crowd of between 40,000 and 50,000. A column of several hundred vehicles carrying lawyers and political activists travelled from the eastern city of Lahore. Crowds along the route cheered the convoy of supporters of the PML-N party of former PM Nawaz Sharif. Protesters want the new government to reinstate the judges without conditions but the two main parties, the PPP and the PML-N, disagree on how Ebadi calls on media to foster peace ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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