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Musharraf's Military Government Receives Judicial Endorsement for Three-Year Rule in Pakistan
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The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
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July 31, 2000
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Musharraf's Military Government Receives Judicial Endorsement for Three-Year Rule in Pakistan
Prof. M.M. Ali is a consultant and a specialist on South Asia. He is a senior fellow with the Center for Planning & Policy Studies based in the Washington, DC area.
The fact that on May 19 the full bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan justified on the basis of "the doctrine of state necessity" the takeover of the Pakistani government by military commander-in-chief Pervez Musharraf may not come as a total surprise. What did surprise this writer is that the court put a three-year limit on the time the general has to complete his task of cleansing the administration of corruption, reviving the ...