An important thought from a friend of THE WEEKLY STANDARD with very good connections in Pakistan:
Pakistanis are worried that we will broker a deal in which Musharraf or a successor will hold nominally free elections but without reinstating the deposed judges. We and the rest of the world aren’t seeing the importance of the judges: no government will have legitimacy unless it reinstates them. The reason Pakistanis are so adamant about the judges is that this is the first time in recent memory that the judiciary has stood up to a military or civilian government. And the first time that civil society has backed their stand. Here’s a newscast you might get a kick out of: “Flowers for Justice” in which people are inundating the homes of the deposed judges with flowers.
