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 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Five judges resigned Monday and hundreds of lawyers demonstrated to protest President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's removal of Pakistan's chief justice, deepening a political crisis for the military leader.
Musharraf defended his suspension of Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry on March 9 over unspecified allegations that the judge had abused his authority. Musharraf said he has handed the judge evidence of complaints the government has received against him.
The judge's suspension has sparked a nationwide lawyers' strike and angry protests by lawyers and opposition activists, drawing a forceful police response and hundreds of arrests.
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