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Islamabad police chief suspended
Islamabad's police chief has been suspended, along with two other senior officials, after a violent crackdown on a protest against the Pakistan president. Dozens of people were injured when police used batons and tear gas against lawyers and journalists demonstrating on Saturday against Pervez Musharraf's decision to stand for re-election. On Monday, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the chief justice whom Musharraf tried to sack in March, told the government to arrest Marwat Shah, Islamabad's inspector general. Shah "should be suspended and arrested because he is responsible for all that happened on Saturday", he said. Chaudhry also called for the suspension of the city's deputy administration chief and another senior police officer during a supreme court hearing to investigate the police response to the protest. "The three officials have been suspended on the orders of supreme court of Pakistan," Brigadier Javed Cheema, an interior ministry spokesman, said. Posted by: Fred 2007-10-02 |
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