Articles > Reference > News Wires, White Papers, and Books > US Fed News Service, Including US State News news wires > July-September 2007 > Thursday, September 27

Article: VOA NEWS: PAKISTAN SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE MUSHARRAF'S ELECTION ELIGIBILITY

Article from:
US Fed News Service, Including US State News
Article date:
September 27, 2007
Copyright

The Voice of America issued the following story:

By Simon Marks

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has pledged to step down as military chief and restore civilian rule if lawmakers give him another five-year mandate. The Supreme Court is now considering whether he is constitutionally eligible to run in the presidential election on 6 October, and is expected to announce its verdict soon. Attorney General Malik Mohammad Qayyum told the court this week that General Musharraf will stay on as army chief if he is not elected for a second term. Simon Marks looks at the situation from Islamabad ahead of the election. Pakistan's Supreme Court was thrust into the middle of political life in ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

Article: Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice ...
PR Newswire;  May 13, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... announcing that Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears will ... Sears to Georgia's Supreme Court. Chief Justice Sears retained her ... She was sworn in as Chief Justice of Georgia's Supreme Court on June 28, 2005 ...

Article: KENTUCKY SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... justice on the Supreme Court. He succeeds Chief Justice Joseph E. Lambert ... November 2006, Chief Justice Minton was elected ... year term on the Supreme Court of Kentucky after ... sitting on the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Minton had been ...

Article: Chief Justice Artemio V. Panganiban retires today, ...
Manila Bulletin;  December 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ...THE life of Supreme Court Chief Justice Artemio V. Panganiban ... later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Panganiban was admired ... As he retires today, Supreme Court Chief Justice Artemio V. Panganiban ...

Article: Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice ...
Arizona Capitol Times;  March 27, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Ruth McGregor's annual ... the nation to serve as chief justice on a state Supreme Court. The 2005 election of ... likened the role of a Supreme Court chief justice to that of a CEO charged ...

Article: Children's justice: the legislative and judicial career of ...
Albany Law Review;  June 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Kathleen A ... examined. Chief Justice Blatz is unique ... Minnesota Supreme Court, but also ... Minnesota Supreme Court, of which ... eventually became Chief Justice in 1998 ...

Article: Death of Rehnquist creates upheaval; Supreme Court ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  September 5, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist ... honor of the chief justice, who was on the Supreme Court for 33 years ... to drape the chief justice's seat in ... beginning of the Supreme Court's new term ...

Article: GOV. PAWLENTY APPOINTS MAGNUSON CHIEF JUSTICE OF ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 17, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... retirement from the Supreme Court last week. Chief Justice Anderson's retirement ... to former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Sheran from ... to former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Douglas K. Amdahl ...

Article: In memoriam: William H. Rehnquist. (US Supreme ...
Harvard Law Review;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... marble steps of the Supreme Court building, to ... fitting. For Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist ... strolling outside the Supreme Court with a law clerk to discuss a case, Chief Justice Rehnquist would ... United States Supreme Court--fifteen as ... and ...

 
 
Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) A FREE trial gives you access to over 80 million articles! Access over 6,500 publications with a FREE trial!

Find articles, research, and archives