Pakistan to reinstate Chief Justice

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Updated March 17, 2009 14:43:04

Pakistan's government has agreed to reinstate Iftikhar Chaudhry as chief justice to defuse a political crisis and end a street protest threatening to turn into violent confrontation.


Presenter: Sonja Heydeman
Speakers: Talat Masood, former secretary in Pakistan's Defence Ministry

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