Emergency in the Islamic republic

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State of Emergency in the islamic republic of PAKISTAN

The 2007 Pakistani state of emergency, was declared by Pakistani Chief of Army Staff Pervez Musharraf on 3 November 2007. In the early hours of the state of emergency the army raided the Supreme Court building in Islamabad while the Justices were inside Information Minister Tariq Azim Khan said on television media that the general election scheduled for January will be delayed indefinitely. Later the election was scheduled to take place by 15 February 2008, as announced by Musharraf himself. He later called for the election date to be on or before 9 January 2008, and it was finally called for 2008-01-08. For common people in Pakistan, emergency brought a sigh of relief as unruly and corrupt politicians were creating a lot of instability which was hurting Pakistan's growing economy.It was announced that the state of emergency would likely end in late November or early December 2007.

Background

After the Election Commissioner approved the candidature of General Pervez Musharraf in the country's presidential election, his opponent, retired Supreme Court justice Wajihuddin Ahmed, challenged the ruling in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court allowed the election to go forward on schedule but barred the Election Commission from officially declaring a winner until it made its decision. All but one opposition party (Pakistan Peoples Party) resigned from the assembly in protest. The sole remaining oppostion party member also boycotted the election and did not participate in the proceeding. On October 6, presidential elections were held with Musharraf winning 56% votes in the parliament and the provincial assemblies.The court earlier announced that it would delay its hearing on the case due to personal engagement of one of the honorable members of the bench. Parliamentary elections are due to be held by February 2008, no later than a month after the original target date for elections.On November 2 the Supreme Court reversed the earlier decision to take a break on the case until November 12, stating that it would now reconvene on November 5 to attempt to finish it quickly. This reversal was in part due to criticism that the court's continuing delay was adding to Pakistan's general instability. Convening on November 12 would have left just three days before the end of Musharraf's presidential term.Earlier Attorney General Malik Qayyum told the court that there was no move by the government to impose martial law.It was anticipated and one of Musharraf's allies accepted later that they had gotten a leak from one of the supreme court judges that the decision will be against Musharraf.