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Mr. Morden
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« on: February 19, 2008, 04:33:51 PM »

Can someone with a better knowledge of Pakistan explain what this means for Musharraf?  Various news outlets are suggesting that it would require 2/3rds of the Parliament to impeach Musharraf, but this article:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3399019.ece

seems to hint that a simple majority of the Parliament could reinstate the ousted Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, and that "if Mr Chaudhry is re-instated, he is certain to invalidate the President’s re-election".  So is Musharraf toast?
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Mr. Morden
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« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2008, 06:36:50 PM »

Don't the anti-Musharraf forces, all told, have more than a two-thirds majority anyway? Only the PML (Q) and MQM support him, plus presumably some independents.

I don't know.  In any case, I would assume that impeachment could be a very messy, drawn out process, whereas reinstating the Supreme Court could be done very quickly.  Not that I know enough about Pakistan to comment intelligently on that.  It just seems like the latter shouldn't take very long.
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