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Vol XXX   NO. 255      Friday      30th November 2007

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12 lawyers hurt in clashes

LAHORE: Hurling bricks and glass bottles, Pakistani lawyers and police clashed in Lahore as President Pervez Musharraf was sworn in for a second term, amid demands he be hanged.

Chanting "Go, Musharraf, Go!", more than 250 lawyers tried to push their way past riot police who fought them back with batons outside the Lahore law courts.

Bricks plucked from the complex walls and used as missiles lay strewn on the ground with shards of broken glass bottles.

"We are not scared. We don't accept Musharraf even without his uniform. He has to go," said lawyer Malik Mohammad Arshad, eye swollen and head bleeding after a brick hit him on the head.

More than 12 lawyers and three policemen were injured in the melee, and three lawyers were arrested.

"Under article 6 of the constitution, he should be tried and the death sentence should be awarded to him," Aftab Rahim, a civil and criminal lawyer, said.

"He imposed martial law under the garb of emergency rule and broke the constitution. We are demanding the restoration of the judiciary. We want supremacy of the law, not a dictatorship."

Lawyers spearheaded protests against Musharraf's imposition of emergency rule.

"We want Musharraf to be tried. He should be impeached. He should be hanged," said lawyer Malik Abdullah Raza.

"Our battle is to block military intervention for ever," said Lahore Bar Association president Syed Mohammad.

  
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