KARACHI, Nov 8: Deposed chief justice of the Supreme Court, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, has said he is willing to meet Gen Pervez Musharraf for the cause of the judiciary.

When asked if he would meet President Musharraf to play a role in the restoration of judiciary’s independence, Justice Iftikhar said that before March 9 — the day he was first removed through a presidential reference — he had ‘good relations’ with President Musharraf. He said he often wondered (why the president took that step) because their relations “had never been strained”.

He was talking to a BBC Urdu Service journalist on Thursday.

He said that judges who had taken the oath under the Provisional Constitution Order had no legal or constitutional legitimacy. He insisted that he and other judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts who had been deposed were still in office…. More>>

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