Police fire tear gas at Pakistan lawyers

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Source: AP

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani police fired tear gas Monday at scores of demonstrating lawyers who were demanding that President Pervez Musharraf reinstate the deposed supreme court chief justice.

Helmeted police in riot gear fired several tear gas canisters at about 200 lawyers and other demonstrators, who were shouting slogans outside the residence of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry. The country's most senior judge has been under house arrest along with his family since Musharraf declared a state of emergency on Nov. 3.



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