Emergency rule in Pakistan

ASHLEY COOK NEWS EDITOR AAC722@CABRINI EDU

The government of Pakistani President and General Perez Musharraf detained leading opposition figures and said that preliminary elections could be delayed for as long as a year. To quiet the challengers of his regime, at least 500 opposition leaders, lawyers and human rights activists were arrested and all individual television channels were cut off. Aimed at preventing public demonstrations that political parties and lawyers were organizing for Monday, Musharraf was told last week by a Supreme Court justice that the court would rule him ineligible to continue serving as president; the ruling would have been unanimous.